Cooling Tower Maintenance Platforms

Fibergrate have recently designed and supplied a project to Dee Tech Services Ltd for maintenance platforms at Deeside Power Station.

The platforms were installed to reduce both down time and costs relating to annual shutdowns of the cooling towers. Previously, construction and removal of scaffolding resulted in 3-6 days per year, per cooling tower, to be lost. A permanent GRP structure allows for only a short downtime while maintenance is carried out, thereby reducing loss of revenue caused by reduced power output.

Safety considerations for the platform included using non-slip materials, as the area is open to the elements and also required no impact on airflow in the cooling tower. Using lightweight GRP made installation easier.

Materials used for this project were 200mm Channel, 38mm deep Corvex grating and handrail.

There are 14 platforms in total to be installed, with 6 completed so far, each taking approximately

2-3 days per tower.

Mark Bunting from Dee Tech commented:

“We recently installed some GRP platforms in 6 cooling towers, at one of our client’s power stations in North Wales.

The support we received from Fibergrate was superb. Fibergrate supplied us with a design detail to work and all materials and fittings to do the job - which were delivered within a timely fashion. There was a rapid turnaround when we required extra materials to get the job finished on-time, which we were very grateful for.

Our client is very happy with the GRP platform solution within their cooling towers, and hopefully we will gain the contract to install 8 more next year”

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