IN-TA-CT®

TAPROGGE Intake System Filtration System TAPROGGE Tube Cleaning System

® Inefficient CW Screening System IN-TA-CT TAPROGGE Tube Cleaning The Integrated TAPROGGE Concept (IN-TA-CT®) complements System – the Original – “ Intake“ – “Filtration“ – “Tube Cleaning System“ to a Removal of fine debris to harmonized solution for highest reliability and efficiency of protect the condenser tubes cooling water cycles – supplied by TAPROGGE out of one hand. from Microfouling Great variety of cleaning balls of our own production to suit any application Zero Ball Loss solution available TAPROGGE IN-TA-CT® TAPROGGE High Perfor- mance Debris Filter

® IN-TA-CT Removal of coarse debris to 03 protect the condenser from Macrofouling 3 Drum screen Highest debris handling capacity 1. Bar screen with stop log | 2. Skip-raked bar screen | 3. Travelling band screen or alternatively drum screen Fully automatical backwash without interruption of the filtration process Disadvantages of conventional Intake System TAPROGGE Air Powered Intake System – TAPIS® A: Operation issues – high O&M cost Extracts only the water from 02 the mixture of debris and Cleaning balls 1. A lot of moving parts which are sensitive to malfunction ® water – therefore debris IN-TA-CT and wear-out disposal is no issue 2. The spray water system as cleaning device is susceptible Unique backwash technology to blockage – it requires good spray water quality by air burst of patented fish friendly polyhedra 3. All collected debris must be disposed of No moving parts under water Postal address: B: Functional issue - no clear debris barrier

TAPROGGE Gesellschaft mbH 01 58292 Wetter 1. Risk of debris carry-over at times of high debris loading Germany PR-BW 100-FC Recirculating unit 2. Permant risk of debris passing by through gaps between Cooling Water Cycle at its Best moving and fixed equipment -> complex of sealing Company address: problems TAPROGGE Gesellschaft mbH 3. Very fine fabric screen is susceptible to formation of cracks Schliemannstr. 2-14 leading to complete damage of filter element 58300 Wetter Germany C: Result Tel: +49 2335 • 7 6 2 - 0 Fax: +49 2335 • 7 6 2 - 2 0 4 1. Permanent risk of blocking condenser tubes leading to [email protected] inefficient operation with less power output of power plant www.taprogge.de TAPIS® PR-BW 800 D2 Strainer 2. Even manual cleaning of condenser might become necessary requiring unscheduled shut down of power plant Seriously fouled condenser water boxes and heavily blocked tube sheets IN-TA-CT®

TAPROGGE Intake System TAPROGGE Filtration System TAPROGGE Tube Cleaning System

® Inefficient CW Screening System IN-TA-CT TAPROGGE Tube Cleaning The Integrated TAPROGGE Concept (IN-TA-CT®) complements System – the Original – “Water Intake“ – “Filtration“ – “Tube Cleaning System“ to a Removal of fine debris to harmonized solution for highest reliability and efficiency of protect the condenser tubes cooling water cycles – supplied by TAPROGGE out of one hand. from Microfouling Great variety of cleaning balls of our own production to suit any application Zero Ball Loss solution available TAPROGGE IN-TA-CT® TAPROGGE High Perfor- mance Debris Filter

® IN-TA-CT Removal of coarse debris to 03 protect the condenser from Macrofouling 3 Drum screen Highest debris handling capacity 1. Bar screen with stop log | 2. Skip-raked bar screen | 3. Travelling band screen or alternatively drum screen Fully automatical backwash without interruption of the filtration process Disadvantages of conventional Intake System TAPROGGE Air Powered Intake System – TAPIS® A: Operation issues – high O&M cost Extracts only the water from 02 the mixture of debris and Cleaning balls 1. A lot of moving parts which are sensitive to malfunction ® water – therefore debris IN-TA-CT and wear-out disposal is no issue 2. The spray water system as cleaning device is susceptible Unique backwash technology to blockage – it requires good spray water quality by air burst of patented fish friendly polyhedra 3. All collected debris must be disposed of No moving parts under water Postal address: B: Functional issue - no clear debris barrier

TAPROGGE Gesellschaft mbH 01 58292 Wetter 1. Risk of debris carry-over at times of high debris loading Germany PR-BW 100-FC Recirculating unit 2. Permant risk of debris passing by through gaps between Cooling Water Cycle at its Best moving and fixed equipment -> complex of sealing Company address: problems TAPROGGE Gesellschaft mbH 3. Very fine fabric screen is susceptible to formation of cracks Schliemannstr. 2-14 leading to complete damage of filter element 58300 Wetter Germany C: Result Tel: +49 2335 • 7 6 2 - 0 Fax: +49 2335 • 7 6 2 - 2 0 4 1. Permanent risk of blocking condenser tubes leading to [email protected] inefficient operation with less power output of power plant www.taprogge.de TAPIS® PR-BW 800 D2 Strainer 2. Even manual cleaning of condenser might become necessary requiring unscheduled shut down of power plant Seriously fouled condenser water boxes and heavily blocked tube sheets IN-TA-CT®

TAPROGGE Intake System TAPROGGE Filtration System TAPROGGE Tube Cleaning System

® Inefficient CW Screening System IN-TA-CT TAPROGGE Tube Cleaning The Integrated TAPROGGE Concept (IN-TA-CT®) complements System – the Original – “Water Intake“ – “Filtration“ – “Tube Cleaning System“ to a Removal of fine debris to harmonized solution for highest reliability and efficiency of protect the condenser tubes cooling water cycles – supplied by TAPROGGE out of one hand. from Microfouling Great variety of cleaning balls of our own production to suit any application Zero Ball Loss solution available TAPROGGE IN-TA-CT® TAPROGGE High Perfor- mance Debris Filter

® IN-TA-CT Removal of coarse debris to 03 protect the condenser from Macrofouling 3 Drum screen Highest debris handling capacity 1. Bar screen with stop log | 2. Skip-raked bar screen | 3. Travelling band screen or alternatively drum screen Fully automatical backwash without interruption of the filtration process Disadvantages of conventional Intake System TAPROGGE Air Powered Intake System – TAPIS® A: Operation issues – high O&M cost Extracts only the water from 02 the mixture of debris and Cleaning balls 1. A lot of moving parts which are sensitive to malfunction ® water – therefore debris IN-TA-CT and wear-out disposal is no issue 2. The spray water system as cleaning device is susceptible Unique backwash technology to blockage – it requires good spray water quality by air burst of patented fish friendly polyhedra 3. All collected debris must be disposed of No moving parts under water Postal address: B: Functional issue - no clear debris barrier

TAPROGGE Gesellschaft mbH 01 58292 Wetter 1. Risk of debris carry-over at times of high debris loading Germany PR-BW 100-FC Recirculating unit 2. Permant risk of debris passing by through gaps between Cooling Water Cycle at its Best moving and fixed equipment -> complex of sealing Company address: problems TAPROGGE Gesellschaft mbH 3. Very fine fabric screen is susceptible to formation of cracks Schliemannstr. 2-14 leading to complete damage of filter element 58300 Wetter Germany C: Result Tel: +49 2335 • 7 6 2 - 0 Fax: +49 2335 • 7 6 2 - 2 0 4 1. Permanent risk of blocking condenser tubes leading to [email protected] inefficient operation with less power output of power plant www.taprogge.de TAPIS® PR-BW 800 D2 Strainer 2. Even manual cleaning of condenser might become necessary requiring unscheduled shut down of power plant Seriously fouled condenser water boxes and heavily blocked tube sheets ® TAPROGGE – your competent partner on the fresh water side as well; Advantages of IN-TA-CT® TAPROGGE TAPIS Caisson TAPROGGE Open cooling Water System e.g. producing boiler feed water from blow down water. compared with a conventional seawater intake TAPIS® Polyhedra and the backwash unit are installed off-shore at a caisson. Such design is Lower investment volume for the machine part Considerably reduced civil works (intake structure) TAPROGGE Water Reuse Plant (WRP) TAPIS® and high-performance debris filter only instead leading to lower cost and shorter construction time necessary whenever the distance between water of bar screen, skip-raked bar screen, travelling band Higher power plant availability due to better extraction point and pump sump exceeds 400 m. screen / drum screen and debris filter system safety This may be the case at very shallow coast lines our dictum “as much as necessary but as little as less equipment with fewer moving parts or if any regulations do not allow an installation possible” is reached by meaningful graduation of filter => reduced failure risk ® closer to the shore line. fineness: TAPIS for cooling water pump protection a debris filter can remove by up to 10 times more debris Benefits and high-performance filter to protect the condenser per time than a travelling band screen / drum screen Great savings on O&M side => almost no overloading risk clear barrier for contaminants significantly fewer moving parts which are intrinsically debris carrying-over is impossible = highest water quality susceptible to wear and tear; especially when they are => no blockage of condenser tubes in alternating contact with air and water less chemicals - no sludge disposal a proper operation of condenser tube cleaning no debris collection and in consequence no waste = environmentally friendly system is always given leading to highest power 1 disposal cost output of the power plant reliable process – high availability ® 3 TAPROGGE TAPIS Standard 1 fully automatical modular design The TAPROGGE WRP is based on latest water treatment innovative technology 1.800 TAPIS® Polyhedra are connected directly to technology consisting of fine filtration, ultra filtration and

2.700 Design ) 300 MW 300 MW ) reverse osmosis complementing each other ideally. combined cycle thermal the pump sump wall. The backwash unit is mm 1.600 mm

( ( Characteristics 2.400 55% efficiency 35% efficiency installed on-shore at the pump sump. This is the 1.400 combined cycle unit = 2.100 1 single most economic TAPIS® design. It is applicable 1.200 1.800 wherever sufficient water depth is available close thermal unit = to the shore line. 1.000 2 pipes in parallel 1.500 100 MW 100 MW TAPROGGE TerraWater Technology 800 1.200 50 MW 50 MW 900 600 cooling water pipe diameter at intake @ 1,0 m/s cooling water pipe diameter at condenser @ 2,5 m/s installation-possibilities 400 600 ® 2 3 0 5.000 10.000 15.000 20.000 25.000 30.000 35.000 plant size - cooling water flow rate (m³/h) @ ∆T = 10°K 2 Terrawater is an Benefits 4 innovative thermal

TAPIS ® 25 desalination and water 50 TAPROGGE TAPIS Long distance no chemicals Cost treatment technology. 45 Estimations Its unique design allows fully out of synthetics 20 40 5 intake structure TAPIS® Polyhedra are fixed to the ground and water and waste water use of waste heat 35 4 and O&M are connected via extra long piping to the pump treatment until Zero modular 15 30 sump wall while the backwash unit is installed O&M conventional Liquid Discharge. waste water reduction 25 O&M TAPIS® on-shore at the pump sump. Such design is process water generation 10 20 ∆ ca. 100% intake conventional applicable whenever the distance between water 1 resource recovery 15 intake TAPIS® extraction point and pump sump is less than 2 6 5 10 400 m. This is typically the case in shallow 7 ∆ ca. 100% 5 where sufficient water depth is reached far away 0 0

m cost from the coast line only. & o (EUR Cent / 1000 m³ of pre-filtered cooling water) cost of intake structure of cooling(EUR cent / (m³/h) water flow rate) 0 5.000 10.000 15.000 20.000 25.000 30.000 35.000 1. High-Performance debris filter | 2. High-Performance fine filter | 3. Tube cleaning system (strainer section) | 4. Ball recirculating unit 1. Feed IN | 2. Heat IN | 3. Heat OUT | 4. Humidification | 5. De-Humidification | 6. Brine | 7. Distillate OUT plant size - cooling water flow rate (m³/h) ® TAPROGGE – your competent partner on the fresh water side as well; Advantages of IN-TA-CT® TAPROGGE TAPIS Caisson TAPROGGE Open cooling Water System e.g. producing boiler feed water from cooling tower blow down water. compared with a conventional seawater intake TAPIS® Polyhedra and the backwash unit are installed off-shore at a caisson. Such design is Lower investment volume for the machine part Considerably reduced civil works (intake structure) TAPROGGE Water Reuse Plant (WRP) TAPIS® and high-performance debris filter only instead leading to lower cost and shorter construction time necessary whenever the distance between water of bar screen, skip-raked bar screen, travelling band Higher power plant availability due to better extraction point and pump sump exceeds 400 m. screen / drum screen and debris filter system safety This may be the case at very shallow coast lines our dictum “as much as necessary but as little as less equipment with fewer moving parts or if any regulations do not allow an installation possible” is reached by meaningful graduation of filter => reduced failure risk ® closer to the shore line. fineness: TAPIS for cooling water pump protection a debris filter can remove by up to 10 times more debris Benefits and high-performance filter to protect the condenser per time than a travelling band screen / drum screen Great savings on O&M side => almost no overloading risk clear barrier for contaminants significantly fewer moving parts which are intrinsically debris carrying-over is impossible = highest water quality susceptible to wear and tear; especially when they are => no blockage of condenser tubes in alternating contact with air and water less chemicals - no sludge disposal a proper operation of condenser tube cleaning no debris collection and in consequence no waste = environmentally friendly system is always given leading to highest power 1 disposal cost output of the power plant reliable process – high availability ® 3 TAPROGGE TAPIS Standard 1 fully automatical modular design The TAPROGGE WRP is based on latest water treatment innovative technology 1.800 TAPIS® Polyhedra are connected directly to technology consisting of fine filtration, ultra filtration and

2.700 Design ) 300 MW 300 MW ) reverse osmosis complementing each other ideally. combined cycle thermal the pump sump wall. The backwash unit is mm 1.600 mm

( ( Characteristics 2.400 55% efficiency 35% efficiency installed on-shore at the pump sump. This is the 1.400 combined cycle unit = 2.100 1 single pipe most economic TAPIS® design. It is applicable 1.200 1.800 wherever sufficient water depth is available close thermal unit = to the shore line. 1.000 2 pipes in parallel 1.500 100 MW 100 MW TAPROGGE TerraWater Technology 800 1.200 50 MW 50 MW 900 600 cooling water pipe diameter at intake @ 1,0 m/s cooling water pipe diameter at condenser @ 2,5 m/s installation-possibilities 400 600 ® 2 3 0 5.000 10.000 15.000 20.000 25.000 30.000 35.000 plant size - cooling water flow rate (m³/h) @ ∆T = 10°K 2 Terrawater is an Benefits 4 innovative thermal

TAPIS ® 25 desalination and water 50 TAPROGGE TAPIS Long distance no chemicals Cost treatment technology. 45 Estimations Its unique design allows fully out of synthetics 20 40 5 intake structure TAPIS® Polyhedra are fixed to the ground and water and waste water use of waste heat 35 4 and O&M are connected via extra long piping to the pump treatment until Zero modular 15 30 sump wall while the backwash unit is installed O&M conventional Liquid Discharge. waste water reduction 25 O&M TAPIS® on-shore at the pump sump. Such design is process water generation 10 20 ∆ ca. 100% intake conventional applicable whenever the distance between water 1 resource recovery 15 intake TAPIS® extraction point and pump sump is less than 2 6 5 10 400 m. This is typically the case in shallow waters 7 ∆ ca. 100% 5 where sufficient water depth is reached far away 0 0 m cost from the coast line only. & o (EUR Cent / 1000 m³ of pre-filtered cooling water) cost of intake structure of cooling(EUR cent / (m³/h) water flow rate) 0 5.000 10.000 15.000 20.000 25.000 30.000 35.000 1. High-Performance debris filter | 2. High-Performance fine filter | 3. Tube cleaning system (strainer section) | 4. Ball recirculating unit 1. Feed IN | 2. Heat IN | 3. Heat OUT | 4. Humidification | 5. De-Humidification | 6. Brine | 7. Distillate OUT plant size - cooling water flow rate (m³/h) ® TAPROGGE – your competent partner on the fresh water side as well; Advantages of IN-TA-CT® TAPROGGE TAPIS Caisson TAPROGGE Open cooling Water System e.g. producing boiler feed water from cooling tower blow down water. compared with a conventional seawater intake TAPIS® Polyhedra and the backwash unit are installed off-shore at a caisson. Such design is Lower investment volume for the machine part Considerably reduced civil works (intake structure) TAPROGGE Water Reuse Plant (WRP) TAPIS® and high-performance debris filter only instead leading to lower cost and shorter construction time necessary whenever the distance between water of bar screen, skip-raked bar screen, travelling band Higher power plant availability due to better extraction point and pump sump exceeds 400 m. screen / drum screen and debris filter system safety This may be the case at very shallow coast lines our dictum “as much as necessary but as little as less equipment with fewer moving parts or if any regulations do not allow an installation possible” is reached by meaningful graduation of filter => reduced failure risk ® closer to the shore line. fineness: TAPIS for cooling water pump protection a debris filter can remove by up to 10 times more debris Benefits and high-performance filter to protect the condenser per time than a travelling band screen / drum screen Great savings on O&M side => almost no overloading risk clear barrier for contaminants significantly fewer moving parts which are intrinsically debris carrying-over is impossible = highest water quality susceptible to wear and tear; especially when they are => no blockage of condenser tubes in alternating contact with air and water less chemicals - no sludge disposal a proper operation of condenser tube cleaning no debris collection and in consequence no waste = environmentally friendly system is always given leading to highest power 1 disposal cost output of the power plant reliable process – high availability ® 3 TAPROGGE TAPIS Standard 1 fully automatical modular design The TAPROGGE WRP is based on latest water treatment innovative technology 1.800 TAPIS® Polyhedra are connected directly to technology consisting of fine filtration, ultra filtration and

2.700 Design ) 300 MW 300 MW ) reverse osmosis complementing each other ideally. combined cycle thermal the pump sump wall. The backwash unit is mm 1.600 mm

( ( Characteristics 2.400 55% efficiency 35% efficiency installed on-shore at the pump sump. This is the 1.400 combined cycle unit = 2.100 1 single pipe most economic TAPIS® design. It is applicable 1.200 1.800 wherever sufficient water depth is available close thermal unit = to the shore line. 1.000 2 pipes in parallel 1.500 100 MW 100 MW TAPROGGE TerraWater Technology 800 1.200 50 MW 50 MW 900 600 cooling water pipe diameter at intake @ 1,0 m/s cooling water pipe diameter at condenser @ 2,5 m/s installation-possibilities 400 600 ® 2 3 0 5.000 10.000 15.000 20.000 25.000 30.000 35.000 plant size - cooling water flow rate (m³/h) @ ∆T = 10°K 2 Terrawater is an Benefits 4 innovative thermal

TAPIS ® 25 desalination and water 50 TAPROGGE TAPIS Long distance no chemicals Cost treatment technology. 45 Estimations Its unique design allows fully out of synthetics 20 40 5 intake structure TAPIS® Polyhedra are fixed to the ground and water and waste water use of waste heat 35 4 and O&M are connected via extra long piping to the pump treatment until Zero modular 15 30 sump wall while the backwash unit is installed O&M conventional Liquid Discharge. waste water reduction 25 O&M TAPIS® on-shore at the pump sump. Such design is process water generation 10 20 ∆ ca. 100% intake conventional applicable whenever the distance between water 1 resource recovery 15 intake TAPIS® extraction point and pump sump is less than 2 6 5 10 400 m. This is typically the case in shallow waters 7 ∆ ca. 100% 5 where sufficient water depth is reached far away 0 0 m cost from the coast line only. & o (EUR Cent / 1000 m³ of pre-filtered cooling water) cost of intake structure of cooling(EUR cent / (m³/h) water flow rate) 0 5.000 10.000 15.000 20.000 25.000 30.000 35.000 1. High-Performance debris filter | 2. High-Performance fine filter | 3. Tube cleaning system (strainer section) | 4. Ball recirculating unit 1. Feed IN | 2. Heat IN | 3. Heat OUT | 4. Humidification | 5. De-Humidification | 6. Brine | 7. Distillate OUT plant size - cooling water flow rate (m³/h) ® TAPROGGE – your competent partner on the fresh water side as well; Advantages of IN-TA-CT® TAPROGGE TAPIS Caisson TAPROGGE Open cooling Water System e.g. producing boiler feed water from cooling tower blow down water. compared with a conventional seawater intake TAPIS® Polyhedra and the backwash unit are installed off-shore at a caisson. Such design is Lower investment volume for the machine part Considerably reduced civil works (intake structure) TAPROGGE Water Reuse Plant (WRP) TAPIS® and high-performance debris filter only instead leading to lower cost and shorter construction time necessary whenever the distance between water of bar screen, skip-raked bar screen, travelling band Higher power plant availability due to better extraction point and pump sump exceeds 400 m. screen / drum screen and debris filter system safety This may be the case at very shallow coast lines our dictum “as much as necessary but as little as less equipment with fewer moving parts or if any regulations do not allow an installation possible” is reached by meaningful graduation of filter => reduced failure risk ® closer to the shore line. fineness: TAPIS for cooling water pump protection a debris filter can remove by up to 10 times more debris Benefits and high-performance filter to protect the condenser per time than a travelling band screen / drum screen Great savings on O&M side => almost no overloading risk clear barrier for contaminants significantly fewer moving parts which are intrinsically debris carrying-over is impossible = highest water quality susceptible to wear and tear; especially when they are => no blockage of condenser tubes in alternating contact with air and water less chemicals - no sludge disposal a proper operation of condenser tube cleaning no debris collection and in consequence no waste = environmentally friendly system is always given leading to highest power 1 disposal cost output of the power plant reliable process – high availability ® 3 TAPROGGE TAPIS Standard 1 fully automatical modular design The TAPROGGE WRP is based on latest water treatment innovative technology 1.800 TAPIS® Polyhedra are connected directly to technology consisting of fine filtration, ultra filtration and

2.700 Design ) 300 MW 300 MW ) reverse osmosis complementing each other ideally. combined cycle thermal the pump sump wall. The backwash unit is mm 1.600 mm

( ( Characteristics 2.400 55% efficiency 35% efficiency installed on-shore at the pump sump. This is the 1.400 combined cycle unit = 2.100 1 single pipe most economic TAPIS® design. It is applicable 1.200 1.800 wherever sufficient water depth is available close thermal unit = to the shore line. 1.000 2 pipes in parallel 1.500 100 MW 100 MW TAPROGGE TerraWater Technology 800 1.200 50 MW 50 MW 900 600 cooling water pipe diameter at intake @ 1,0 m/s cooling water pipe diameter at condenser @ 2,5 m/s installation-possibilities 400 600 ® 2 3 0 5.000 10.000 15.000 20.000 25.000 30.000 35.000 plant size - cooling water flow rate (m³/h) @ ∆T = 10°K 2 Terrawater is an Benefits 4 innovative thermal

TAPIS ® 25 desalination and water 50 TAPROGGE TAPIS Long distance no chemicals Cost treatment technology. 45 Estimations Its unique design allows fully out of synthetics 20 40 5 intake structure TAPIS® Polyhedra are fixed to the ground and water and waste water use of waste heat 35 4 and O&M are connected via extra long piping to the pump treatment until Zero modular 15 30 sump wall while the backwash unit is installed O&M conventional Liquid Discharge. waste water reduction 25 O&M TAPIS® on-shore at the pump sump. Such design is process water generation 10 20 ∆ ca. 100% intake conventional applicable whenever the distance between water 1 resource recovery 15 intake TAPIS® extraction point and pump sump is less than 2 6 5 10 400 m. This is typically the case in shallow waters 7 ∆ ca. 100% 5 where sufficient water depth is reached far away 0 0 m cost from the coast line only. & o (EUR Cent / 1000 m³ of pre-filtered cooling water) cost of intake structure of cooling(EUR cent / (m³/h) water flow rate) 0 5.000 10.000 15.000 20.000 25.000 30.000 35.000 1. High-Performance debris filter | 2. High-Performance fine filter | 3. Tube cleaning system (strainer section) | 4. Ball recirculating unit 1. Feed IN | 2. Heat IN | 3. Heat OUT | 4. Humidification | 5. De-Humidification | 6. Brine | 7. Distillate OUT plant size - cooling water flow rate (m³/h) IN-TA-CT®

TAPROGGE Intake System TAPROGGE Filtration System TAPROGGE Tube Cleaning System

® Inefficient CW Screening System IN-TA-CT TAPROGGE Tube Cleaning The Integrated TAPROGGE Concept (IN-TA-CT®) complements System – the Original – “Water Intake“ – “Filtration“ – “Tube Cleaning System“ to a Removal of fine debris to harmonized solution for highest reliability and efficiency of protect the condenser tubes cooling water cycles – supplied by TAPROGGE out of one hand. from Microfouling Great variety of cleaning balls of our own production to suit any application Zero Ball Loss solution available TAPROGGE IN-TA-CT® TAPROGGE High Perfor- mance Debris Filter

® IN-TA-CT Removal of coarse debris to 03 protect the condenser from Macrofouling 3 Drum screen Highest debris handling capacity 1. Bar screen with stop log | 2. Skip-raked bar screen | 3. Travelling band screen or alternatively drum screen Fully automatical backwash without interruption of the filtration process Disadvantages of conventional Intake System TAPROGGE Air Powered Intake System – TAPIS® A: Operation issues – high O&M cost Extracts only the water from 02 the mixture of debris and Cleaning balls 1. A lot of moving parts which are sensitive to malfunction ® water – therefore debris IN-TA-CT and wear-out disposal is no issue 2. The spray water system as cleaning device is susceptible Unique backwash technology to blockage – it requires good spray water quality by air burst of patented fish friendly polyhedra 3. All collected debris must be disposed of No moving parts under water Postal address: B: Functional issue - no clear debris barrier

TAPROGGE Gesellschaft mbH 01 58292 Wetter 1. Risk of debris carry-over at times of high debris loading Germany PR-BW 100-FC Recirculating unit 2. Permant risk of debris passing by through gaps between Cooling Water Cycle at its Best moving and fixed equipment -> complex of sealing Company address: problems TAPROGGE Gesellschaft mbH 3. Very fine fabric screen is susceptible to formation of cracks Schliemannstr. 2-14 leading to complete damage of filter element 58300 Wetter Germany C: Result Tel: +49 2335 • 7 6 2 - 0 Fax: +49 2335 • 7 6 2 - 2 0 4 1. Permanent risk of blocking condenser tubes leading to [email protected] inefficient operation with less power output of power plant www.taprogge.de TAPIS® PR-BW 800 D2 Strainer 2. Even manual cleaning of condenser might become necessary requiring unscheduled shut down of power plant Seriously fouled condenser water boxes and heavily blocked tube sheets