Engineering, Repair & Maintenance for Industry

TEi has extensive experience in plant repair and manufacture in the energy, process and manufacturing industries:

Maintenance agreements on a term or call-out basis
Management of other associated trades
Key spares purchasing and stock holding

Overhauls & Shutdowns:

TEi has, through many years, built up a reputation for the successful completion of overhaul and shutdown work on energy and process plants:

Active partnering with clients to achieve minimum downtime and achieve key dates
Detailed pre-shutdown planning
Management of own direct labour and sub-contractors

TEi has carried out major outages for International and domestic Clients such as BP (Hull), Esso (Southampton), Sita, RWE, Scottish & Southern, Texaco, ConocoPhillips, BASF, Alcan Smelting, EPR, Drax (Ferrybridge) and WRG.

Staff and Labour:

The unique strength of TEi comes from the enthusiasm, dedication and commitment of all employees, many who have continuous employment for over 20 years.

TEi managers, engineers, supervision and direct labour are a well trained group who have a wealth of specialist knowledge, gained by experience and continuous training.

We provide a 24 hour response to many of our clients to cover all unplanned outages using our highly skilled emergency repair team.

BURNING BIO-FUELS AT FERRYBRIDGE – CASE STUDY

TEi EXPERTISE

The contract, included detailed mechanical design, supply, installation and fabrication of the following:

6 TPS BioSwirl™ wood firing burners per boiler
Primary air fans and ductwork
Secondary air fans and ductwork
Transport air blowers & fuel transport systems
FGR and ductwork from stacks

Drax BDS Project

Drax Power Ltd commissioned Shepherd Construction Ltd to act as main contractor to convert three of its six 660MW coal fired boiler units at Drax Power Station near Selby. TEi were engaged by SCL to install the necessary process equipment and piping systems to enable 100% biomass firing.

The Project required the following:

Removal of the 30 existing coal feeders.
Installation of 31 compressors to supply motive air to the fuel transport system, complete with stand by arrangement.
Design, manufacture and installation of 2km of transport airpipe (150mm and 200mm nominal bore) from the compressors to the intermediate storage silo mixing chambers.
The design included pressure containment calculations, a full flexibility study including 3D modelling of the system, along with design of the pipe support system to allow for the thermal and operational movements within the piping system.
Installation of approx. 8km of product delivery pipework from the intermediate storage silos where it becomes entrained with the product which then delivers the biomass to the filter receiver units.
Installation of the Filter receiver units at the feeder floor complete with all secondary steelwork, associated supports and vent pipework.