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On-site Machining, Press Release

PRESS RELEASE

November 12th, 2009

Metalock Drax Power 58

Metalock Engineering UK has recently carried out intricate on-site machining on two LP turbines at Drax power station to enable Siemens retrofits and upgrades which will improve output and give the turbines a new lease of life. Metalock’s contract is for the machining of all six LP turbines. The LP spindle upgrade involves the removal of the diaphragms between each row of blading and converting to a blade carrier system. This is three carriers fitted with groups of blading.

Drax is the largest coal-fired power station in the UK with a total capacity of just under 4000 MW. When originally built in 1974 it had three 660 MW turbines and in 1986, three more were added. With its flue gas desulphurisation equipment it is the cleanest coal-fired station in the UK and generates about 7 per cent of the UK’s electricity. It is owned by Drax Group plc.


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