GE Hitatchi (GEH) said that the company's new, high-tech water filter system called the Feedwater Debris Strainer (FWDS) has been successfully installed at the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant in Forsmark, Sweden.
The strainer is designed to take out any debris “as small as a bristle from a brush,” said Lance Hall, Senior Vice President, Nuclear Fuel and Services at GEH, who noted that Forsmark is planning to add additional strainers to their system, based on the success of this first installation.
The strainer is designed to filter out any particles above 0.016 inch in diameter with a minimum drop in water flow pressure. It is designed as a zero-maintenance system providing uninterrupted, multi-cycle operation, according the GEH Web site.
Plant systems with intake of 15,000 gallons per minute can expect only a 4 psi drop in pressure, the company says.