Clyde Bergemann Germany: Company - Info / Press - 2007

Indian delegation visits Clyde Bergemann at German headquarters

Wesel/Germany, December 2007
Twelve chief engineers of the Indian utility Punjab State Electricity Board visited German headquarters of Clyde Bergemann in Wesel to get updated on the latest products and solutions for on-load boiler cleaning and materials handling at coal-fired power stations. The two day visit is part of an eight-week professional training programme, coordinated by the “Kraftwerksschule e.V.” in Essen, Germany.

The visitor group was particularly taken with SMART CLEAN, an on-load boiler cleaning principle invented by Clyde Bergemann which cleans boiler’s heating and reaction surfaces demand driven and targeted instead of executing fixed cleaning cycles.

The presented materials handling technology proved to be suited very well for specific process related challenges of coal-fired power stations in India. Normally, bottom ash resulting from coal-combustion is handled by submerged scraper conveyor. But water is a very precious commodity in India. The materials handling system of Clyde Bergemann uses air to cool ash. This is a green technology and benefits of higher efficiency due to additional heat gain out of the re-burning effect. In China, a country with comparable water shortage, first installations of DRYCON systems have been concluded in 2007.
For Clyde Bergemann, India is a market with huge potential. Experts assume energy demand to increase minimum four times until the year 2032. Currently, more than half of the existing generation capacity is coal-fired but the total number of power plants needs to be increased significantly to avoid shortages.