Australian air movement specialist Fanquip has successfully completed a fan refurbishment to more than 200 auxiliary transformers at the NSW Hunter Valley’s Eraring power station.
Won as a subcontracted supply agreement through the Downer Group, Fanquip was required to locate existing, aged fans and replace them with its heavy duty product as part of an integrated cooling system.
Fanquip installed fans onto these auxiliary transformers to blow hot air across a pipe network containing cooling oils.
The action of air movement being blown across the pipes cools the oil while it is being channelled through the transformers, preventing any over-heating of the system.
The main generators of this power plant reach very high temperatures, so it is up to the auxiliary transformers to maintain running efficiency of all the services ahead of operation.
Fanquip’s installation included primary air (PA) fans, induced draft (ID) fans and force draft (FD) fans for boilers.
Eraring Energy is a state-owned corporation that manages a diverse set of electricity generating assets located throughout NSW.
Its portfolio comprises a number of generators including thermal power stations, NSW’s first wind farm, hydro sites and pumped storage schemes.
The organisation has a combined generating capacity of over 3200 megawatts, including the Eraring power station at 2880 MW, which is Australia’s largest generating site.
Fanquip is one of Australia’s fastest growing suppliers of air movement technology as well as turnkey design and fit-out services.
Its markets are very diverse, including mining, engineering and manufacturing, food processing and handling, third party logistics, agricultural business and transport and shipping.