Effective power plant cooling water intake cleaning

As part of a major overhaul project at Hong Kong’s Black Point Power Plant, the cooling water intakes were scheduled to be cleaned of a 25-centimeter-thick layer of biofouling. The customer’s main concern – safety and a minimum of downtime – required the design of a dedicated underwater cleaning machine.

Seatools developed a dedicated Remotely Operated Cleaning Machine (ROCM) that proved very successful: the ROCM cleaned a 400-meter-long tunnel in as little as 80 hours.

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