Mobile plant hire saves money

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."