By Greentech
Lead Team: Pall Corporation, a provider of filtration and separation solutions
to the power generation industry, has launched Ultipor GF Fine filter that
reduces radioactive particulate exposure for plant personnel and equipment.
Advanced
filtration capabilities are essential to the safe and reliable operation of
current and next generation high-efficiency reactors. Pall claims that
this is a major advance in nuclear power plant filtration.
In nuclear
plants, radioactive particulate can contaminate equipment and increase exposure
to plant workers. The new Ultipor GF Fine elements exhibit a high dirt-holding
capacity, low pressure drop, and improved particulate removal performance in
the fine sub-micron range.
The company
boasts that this is the only disposable filter in the world to be rated at 0.05
microns at 99.98 percent efficiency and that can be used for all key nuclear
steam supply system applications. These include reactor coolant letdown, seal
water injection, fuel pool, and radioactive waste (radwaste). The rating
redefines the lowest reasonably achievable exposure level.
GF Fine
filters can reduce maintenance costs and enhance the service life of primary
components as well as a plant operator’s ability to control worker exposure.
“Pall’s
Ultipor GF Fine filters will enable customers to further reduce contamination
in their plants by removing nuclear particles as small as 0.05 microns. These
advanced filters will enable the reduction of low level radwaste and associated
storage and labor costs while improving plant safety and equipment
reliability,” said Greg Collins, president, Energy and Water.
Recently,
SEG Qatar selected Pall Corporation to supply a water treatment solution for
Qatar Petroleum’s (QP) premier Ras Laffan Emergency and Safety College (RLESC).
The complete Pall Aria AP-Series packaged membrane system will filter the
facility’s treated sewage effluent and remove bacteria, viruses, turbidity and
suspended matter.