Case Study
E-On, Connah’s Quay Power Station Cooling Tower Radiator Inlet Manifold Replacements
Connah’s Quay is a 1600MW Gas Fired Power Station, located on the Dee estuary, owned and operated by E-On. The cooling water system consists of ten cooling towers per boiler i.e., forty in total. The heater exchanger inlet headers manufactured from Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP) had started to fail due to age related fatigue. Over the last 18 months, twenty-two of the headers had been replaced. E-On made the decision to let a contract to rep