Case Study

Protecting the Health of Workers During an Annual Outage at an Energy-from-waste Plant

Industry

Enfinium is one of the UK’s leading innovators in resource recovery and recycling, committed to transforming waste for a climate-positive future.

During planning of an annual outage, Enfinium identified hazardous activities such as welding, burning, cutting and grinding within the grate area and confined spaces could put workers at high risk of exposure to the fumes generated during these tasks.

Challenge

Whilst planning for the outage, Enfinium identified two major challenges caused from the hot works being carried out.

Firstly, the risk to contractor worker’s long-term health if they were exposed to harmful fume. With the works being carried out within a confined space, the exposure risk was heightened.

Secondly, the reduction in productivity. If fumes were left to build up and create visibility challenges, this would increase the need for breaks which could impact the outage timeline.

Solution

RVT Group Consultants who specialise in industrial hazard controls, visited the facility to assess the work area and to understand what challenges could arise, before recommending a fully compliant, temporary hire solution that was suitable for Enfinium’s requirements.

The solution consisted of the VENTEX® Centrifugal Fan 200S-HP and DUSTEX® SuperFilta 40. A&P wanted to minimise downtime as much as possible whilst the cruiser was docked, this solution supported this as the DUSTEX® SuperFilta 40 features pulse-jet technology that means it self cleans, removing the need to manually change the filters.

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