ELGA Process Water’s
Aquamove mobile water
treatment solutions team is
reported to have reduced
maintenance downtime and
increased revenue at Lakeside
EFW, a major energy from
waste plant at Colnbrook near
Slough. Each year the facility
incinerates 410,000t of waste
and exports 34MW of elec –
tricity to the National Grid.

Lakeside EFW uses waste
fired boilers generating 45bar
steam to drive a turbine.

When a boiler is drained for
routine maintenance it has to
be refilled with demineralised
water; with a limited flow
from the make-up water
demineralisation plant, this
would take about three days –
days of lost generation.

This is where the
Aquamove MOFI 35m3/h
mobile plant comes in. Martin
Rogers, EHS Manager at
Lakeside EFW, explains:
“Hiring in the MOFI mobile
unit means that we can get the
boiler up and running in less
than a day, and the increased
generation revenue more than
covers the hire cost. An
Aquamove engineer can be
deployed, together with the
necessary equipment, fittings
and documentation within
two hours of a call, and that’s
reassuring.”