Rebuilding aged feedwater heaters can make better economic sense than buying new ones, because rebuilding reduces capital cost and plant outage expenses. At one Texas generating station, rebuilding ...

Today’s feedwater heater rebuilding companies can rebuild aging units in a matter of weeks, while new replacement units can take a year or two to manufacture. In many cases, rebuilding can proceed ...

The regenerative feedwater cycle of modern fossil and nuclear power plants normally includes four or five low-pressure, closed (tube surface-type) feedwater heaters (CFWHs). However, maximum ...

Framatome has completed the first of 12 low-pressure feedwater heater replacements at Arizona Public Service's Palo Verde nuclear power plant as part of a seven-year campaign to replace all the ...

MONITORING OF THE SHELL wall thickness of feedwater heaters at Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Kansas in 2003 revealed erosion of three of the 12 low-pressure feedwater heater shells. Further ...