The Severn Power generating station is an 850 MW CCGT (combined cycle gas turbine) power station that is being built on the site of the former Uskmouth, a power station in South Wales. The new station has been specifically designed to have minimum environmental impact, said the company.
The boiler make up water treatment plant for the project, incorporates media filtration, a reverse osmosis membrane system and ion-exchange polishing technologies. Each of the project’s two condensate polishing plants has a capacity of 440 m3/h and whilst operating in the ammonia cycle, is expected to deliver polished condensate water with low levels of sodium.
To achieve the required performance, Watercare International is reportedly supplying an externally regenerated condensate polishing system with resin transfer between two cartridge-filtration, mixed-bed operator condensate polishing sets and a common multiple vessel regeneration plant.
Chris Russell, managing director of Watercare International, said: “Naturally, we’re delighted to have won this important contract. We believe that our success in doing so was due, in no small part, to our proven experience in providing efficient, dependable and cost effective solutions for a wide range of industries where large volumes of process-critical water are required.”
Richard Tyreman, project director of Severn Power said: “Severn Power has been specifically designed to minimise its environmental impacts, and a key aspect of this is to ensure that no water is taken from, nor discharged into, the river Usk.”
