Aggreko Cooling Tower Services Keeps Power Plant's Discharge
Temps in Check
The Customer Challenge
At a major power plant’s generation facility
in Florida, maintaining regulated temperatures for discharge water
can be a challenge during the summer. Cooling water flowing in from
the Gulf is warm, and customer demand is at its highest. The plant
faced a choice: either cool its discharge water or reduce
production through de-rates. A de-rate at that plant means power
has to come from other plants burning more expensive fuels, which
means higher costs for customers.
The Aggreko Solution
Aggreko Cooling Tower
Services provided a flexible, modular cooling
tower solution that the plant could use during peak
periods of demand or weather extremes – whenever it faced rising
discharge temperatures. The Aggreko team installed 67 cooling tower
rentals, 27 rental pumps, plus several miles of piping and
associated fittings to meet the plant’s cooling needs – a major and
complex deployment. The entire system is fully automated, PC
controlled and managed by the plant’s operators located
off-site.
The Benefit to the Customer
With cooling towers from Aggreko Cooling Tower
Services in place, the power plant can operate the “helper” towers
only when needed to avoid de-rates. And by cooling discharge water
only during peak demand, the plant will be able to provide the most
cost-effective energy when its customers need it most. This
solution will also enable the customer to determine if its thermal
issues are temporary in nature before they invest in a more costly
long-term solution.
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