Jacquelyn™ Coated Intake Pipe

Industry

Power Generation

Problem

A new intake system was being built in an area infested with zebra mussels.  The system had no tolerance for diminished flow so they had to ensure that the intake pipes remained free of zebra mussels.

Solution

The ID of the piping was coated with Jacquelyn™ Coating.  This was significantly less expensive than using pipe built of an antifouling material.

Result

Reduction of capital, operating, and maintenance cost for the facility.

 

Jacquelyn™ Coated Intake Pipe

A power plant was retrofitting its cooling water intake system to comply with EPA Regulation 316(b).  The engineers were concerned because the water body they were drawing from was infested with zebra mussels.  In addition, the flow rate through the system was going to be decreased to a flow rate which is optimal for zebra mussel growth.  The facility needed to maintain ample cooling water to avoid costly thermal discharge penalties or even a system outage.  Cook Legacy used Jacquelyn™ Coating to address these concerns.  Using our ASME Certified fabricators we built the pipe and applied Jacquelyn™ Coating to the ID of the intake pipe array.  This application led to a significant reduction in capital cost over the use of exotic material such as 90-10 CuNi for the piping. 

 

 

Air Burst System for Municipal Water

Industry

Municipal Water

Problem

Update and retrofit of Municipal Water Plant to increase site capacity.  The system piping and wet well were too small for the upgrade, leaving a very low tolerance for clogging on the screens.

Solution

Cook Legacy developed a custom air burst system to clean the screen.  In order to ensure that the system had full capacity the air burst system was set to provide a burst of air based upon a timer, a push button, or a signal from the system SCADA indicating a drop in the wet well level.

Result

System is operable without structural modifications to the wet well.

 

 

Air Burst System for Municipal Water

A water treatment plant was updating its capacity. One major component of this upgrade was doubling the intake capacity of the systems. Although the screens were properly sized to account for the upgrade (they were developed by Lee Cook in 1997) the physical system including the wet well was not. As such there was no room for clogging or loss of capacity within the system. Cook Legacy developed an airburst system which integrated with the plant’s SCADA system to provide a cleaning burst whenever water level dropped. The system was also flexible, and allowed for timer initiation, or initiation via an onboard touch screen.