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News Release from: Rotork Controls | Subject: Rotork A, AQ and IQ actuators
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 18 October 2007
Double-sealed actuators survive flooding
Rotork provided two site service technicians who inspected and checked actuators in vital areas including the low lift pump house, which had been submerged to a depth of 3m.
Rotork's double-sealed electric valve actuator enclosure design has proved its worth in the aftermath of the disastrous flooding of the Severn Trent Mythe water treatment works at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire In what has been described as "a once in a two hundred and fifty year event", water from the adjacent rain-swollen River Severn flooded the entire Mythe site at the end of July 2007, in some plant areas to a depth of 5m, cutting off the daily supply of 120 million litres of drinking water to 350,000 customers in the Gloucester, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury areas
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 17 Mar 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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It was imperative that the works were cleaned, repaired and brought back into operation with the utmost urgency and this was successfully achieved within four days after the flooding had subsided.
More than 150 Rotork electric valve actuators - encompassing A, AQ and IQ ranges, controlling the automated sequence of water treatment processes throughout the site - had to be inspected for water damage before they could be returned to service.
To assist in this work, Rotork provided two site service technicians on the first morning of the clean-up, who inspected and checked actuators in vital areas including the low lift pump house, which had been submerged to a depth of 3m.
In all cases they found that where water had entered an actuator, it had only done so through cable entries into the terminal compartment and had been prevented from reaching any electrical components within the actuator itself by the O ring seal fitted around the terminal bung.
As a result, all the actuators inspected by the Rotork technicians were found to be fully functional and could be immediately returned to service after cleaning and drying out some of the terminal compartments.
In other plant areas, another Severn Trent Water contractor reported the same situation among virtually all of the Rotork actuators inspected by its engineers.
Severn Trent Water Area Manager Andrew Bowkett said "The Rotork actuators acquitted themselves well, assisting the enormous efforts made by Severn Trent staff and our contractors to bring the plant back into full operation with the absolute minimum of delay".
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