Fabric filter plants Nos 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 installed by Bateman Howden at Eskom’s Majuba power station, near Volksrust, RSA. Filter No. 5 is 95 % complete.



Fish-eye lens plan view of the site and bag filter No. 6 before fitting the roof. The cell plates accommodating 500 bags each are being installed. Each cell measures 4 m by 4 m. The inlet to the bag house is being constructed on the left of the unit.

Bagfilter No. 4 in the middle of the scene, with its outlet duct in the foreground.

View of the five completed bag filters from the top of unit No. 6. A conveyor feeding coal to the boilers can be seen sloping up from the left of the picture.

Bateman Howden Maintains High Standards at Majuba 

Bateman Howden, an ISO 9001 listed company, continues to maintain high standards for consistency and excellence in management and workmanship on the project to install fabric filter plants at Eskom’s Majuba power station near Volksrust, RSA.

The company received its second gold medal for quality management in the annual 1999 quality awards. These awards are presented by Eskom to onsite contractors, based on an evaluation of the contractor’s project management, engineering, site erection, control of documentation and other activities relating to the ISO 9001system.

Bateman Howden has consistently received quality medals over the past four years, achieving a silver in 1996, a gold in 1997, and a silver in 1998. Work was first started on the site in 1992, when a contract was awarded for the installation of the first three (of six) fabric filter plants. These were completed during the period 1996 to 1998. In May 1997work began on the next three plants, planned as a three-and-a-half year project. These new plants are the largest of their kind in the world, and will contain the particulate emissions from the six 670MW boilers to below 50 mg/Sm³.

For more information, kindly contact Dave Ford, Project Manager,
on +27-11-201-2300 or mail engtech@batemanengineering.com.

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