MHG delivers heating during power-station decommissioning
To provide heating for this administration building at Fawley Power Station, which is being decommissioned, MHG Heating has supplied two EcoStar oil-fired condensing boilers, a pressure manager, expansion vessel, header assemblies and weather-compensation controls. Heating was previously provided as a by-product of the system used to warm oil and fuel lines to the generators.
The station had four oil-fired 500 MW generators.
The new heating system was designed by AC&R Consultancy, whose David Patrick explains, ‘A key challenge was to integrate the new boiler plant with existing shell boilers while they were running and enable it to take over when the shell boilers were turned off. This was achieved using plate heat exchangers to separate the two systems.’
The EcoStar boilers were installed in cascade configuration in a former canteen that has been converted to a plant room.
