Second-generation Gee tanks for electricity generating ... replacement. ... deliver and install a...
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Engineered solutions in chemical storage Gee & Company, Holborn Hill, Birmingham B7 5JR Tel: 0121 326 1700 Fax: 0121 326 1779 Email: [email protected] Web: www.geeco.co.uk After nearly twenty years’ operational experience with Gee chemical storage tanks, major north-west electricity generator Intergen has shown its faith in the product by again choosing Gee as the preferred replacement. Birmingham-based Gee was contracted to manufacture, deliver and install a replacement BS 4994:1897 category 1 uPVC lined GRP bulk storage tank. Forming a key part of the cooling tower disinfection programme, the tank will store 15% sodium hypochlorite. Sodium Hypchlorite tank replacement for cooling tower disinfection. Minimum disruption It was important to the customer that the changeover from the existing tank to the new tank should take place with minimum disruption to the chemical dosing programme to the cooling towers. Also key was to avoid the lengthy use of high-cost IBCs to provide temporary dosing cover during the manufacture and installation process. Matched engineering The tank division of Gee & Company had manufactured the original tank twenty years ago. Within the company’s archives, the original engineering details to replicate the existing tank could be found, making the need for an extensive re-design unnecessary. As an added bonus for the customer, the like-for-like replacement provided a product that Second-generation Gee tanks for electricity generating company. Photograph: the 20m³ 14% Sodium Hypochlorite tank during final installation stage. matched both the existing space on site and all the connecting pipework. Test of time Rob Lissner, managing director of Gee & Company, commented, “Few companies have been manufacturing chemical storage tanks as long as we have and it’s good to see a Gee tank, built some twenty years ago, providing such reliable service with long-term exposure to sodium hypochlorite”.
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Engineered solutions in chemical storage
Gee & Company, Holborn Hill, Birmingham B7 5JRTel: 0121 326 1700Fax: 0121 326 1779Email: [email protected]: www.geeco.co.uk
After nearly twenty years’ operational experience with Gee chemical storage tanks, major north-west electricity
generator Intergen has shown its faith in the product by again choosing Gee as the preferred replacement.
Birmingham-based Gee was contracted to manufacture, deliver and install a replacement
BS 4994:1897 category 1 uPVC lined GRP bulk storage tank. Forming a key part of the cooling tower disinfection programme, the tank will store 15% sodium hypochlorite.
Sodium Hypchlorite tank replacement for cooling tower disinfection.
Minimum disruption
It was important to the customer that the changeover from the existing tank to the new tank should take place with minimum disruption to the chemical dosing programme to the cooling towers. Also key was to avoid the lengthy use of high-cost IBCs to provide temporary dosing cover during the manufacture and installation process.
Matched engineering
The tank division of Gee & Company had manufactured the original tank twenty years ago. Within the company’s archives, the original engineering details to replicate the existing tank could be found, making the need for an extensive re-design unnecessary. As an added bonus for the customer, the like-for-like replacement provided a product that
Second-generation Gee tanks for electricity generating company.
Photograph: the 20m³ 14% Sodium Hypochlorite tank during final installation stage.
matched both the existing space on site and all the connecting pipework.
Test of time
Rob Lissner, managing director of Gee & Company, commented, “Few companies have been manufacturing chemical storage tanks as long as we have and it’s good to see a Gee tank, built some twenty years ago, providing such reliable service with long-term exposure to sodium hypochlorite”.
