Coal clean up for UK power station

BVC has handed over a major project to a UK power station, enabling the clean up and recycling of spilt materials. The requirement was to supply and install fixed pipe work systems in coal conveyors and buildings which handle the coal from rail delivery to the boiler bunker penthouse where a fixed pipe system was required.

Installation of these pipe systems, used in conjunction with mobile skips and vacuum plant, has delivered a cost effective solution. All materials collected can be returned to the coal stockpile making savings on a precious resource.

Ten pipe systems have been installed. Each has been designed for two people to carry out heavy industrial vacuum cleaning operations and bulk removal duties removing products from the floors throughout the coal reception and processing facility.

Coal is accelerated from a static condition by an airstream and conveyed through pipework to an interceptor skip at ground level where most of the material is separated.