The water-steam circuit is at the heart of every thermal power plant fired by fossil or nuclear fuel, with steam serving both as energy carrier and cooling medium. Its chemistry determines plant availability more than almost any other factor.
Around the world, XRESIN ion exchange resins help keep these plants running efficiently and safely for decades. They demineralise cooling and make-up water and polish condensate in the water-steam circuit. This is the only reliable way to prevent scale formation and sustain optimal heat transfer, while also suppressing corrosion in boilers, pipelines and heat exchangers. High regenerability keeps operating costs economical over the long term.
In nuclear plants our resins also serve the chemical and volume control system (CVCS), where selective media remove both radioactive and non-radioactive species from the coolant circuit.