At 24:00, you are at the bottom of a boiler. It wouldn't be coal inside those hoppers, but a constant rain of red-hot sticky "slag" (melted ash), falling from the furnace above. The machines you see at the bottom are devices to drag this hot slag off to a hopper for disposal. When cooled, the particles of slag would be used as an aggregate material in the construction industry. There are lots of pipes around these hoppers to keep the rain of slag moving, and not sticking inside of the hoppers to bung them up.
At 33:20, you are at the side of the boiler. Inside the boiler would have been bundles of pipes to raise steam, with the coal flame passing through these tubes. The coal is pulverised before it goes into the burners, so there is lots of red-hot powdery ash (incombustible material) left over once the coal has burned. This collects on the bundles of pipes and would act as insulation on the pipes if it was left alone. The long device with the crap cemented to it and heat shielding is a soot blower. There would be loads of these alongside the boiler, and they would sequentially be pushed into the boiler, blowing high pressure air onto the tubes inside the boiler to knock off the collected ash and keep the boiler operating efficiently. When you see those collections of pressure gauges elsewhere in the boiler house, these would have been the valves distributing the high pressure air to the soot blowers.
The square hole at 41.40 We cut a hole in the corrugated wall to allow fresh air into the bunkers if the bunker ran short of coal the bunker below would blow back resulting in black coal dust filling the area. Also methane gas would fill the bunker BA sets would be outside the bunker. The pipe you see at 41.40 was for the spillage from the magnetic seperators on conveyors No9 and 10 scrap metal would be thrown into a metal cart and lowered down below to the 40ft level the pipe was a alternative . I think that pipe blocked up after a week. The large cable reels was for the shuttle conveyor down below which would travel back and forth over the coal bunkers what I can remember six bunkers for each unit A.B.C.D.E.F. each held 500tons of coal the shuttle conveyor had a flap valve when A.B.C. was full the operator on the control panel would change the flap to feed D.E.F. also changing the direction of the conveyor.
Thank you guys, great explore, don't worry about it being a bit dark, we understand, but you lit up the bits that were very interesting, and that's the main thing. Thanks again for taking us with you😁❤️👍
Worked here for over 20 years, great to watch the video and sad to see it so quiet at the same time
I worked at Agecroft (MMD) when it was part of the CEGB, best job I ever had.
At 24:00, you are at the bottom of a boiler. It wouldn't be coal inside those hoppers, but a constant rain of red-hot sticky "slag" (melted ash), falling from the furnace above. The machines you see at the bottom are devices to drag this hot slag off to a hopper for disposal. When cooled, the particles of slag would be used as an aggregate material in the construction industry. There are lots of pipes around these hoppers to keep the rain of slag moving, and not sticking inside of the hoppers to bung them up.
At 33:20, you are at the side of the boiler. Inside the boiler would have been bundles of pipes to raise steam, with the coal flame passing through these tubes. The coal is pulverised before it goes into the burners, so there is lots of red-hot powdery ash (incombustible material) left over once the coal has burned. This collects on the bundles of pipes and would act as insulation on the pipes if it was left alone. The long device with the crap cemented to it and heat shielding is a soot blower. There would be loads of these alongside the boiler, and they would sequentially be pushed into the boiler, blowing high pressure air onto the tubes inside the boiler to knock off the collected ash and keep the boiler operating efficiently. When you see those collections of pressure gauges elsewhere in the boiler house, these would have been the valves distributing the high pressure air to the soot blowers.
Very interesting thank you for letting us know
I just hope to God that someone with influence sees sense and halts the destruction of yet another of our vitally needed power stations
What are they intending to replace FF with? Solar and wind. What a joke.
Worked here for 15 years,best times with the best people,
Cheers,great video,
A few lads from Agecroft went to Fiddlers👍🏼
The square hole at 41.40 We cut a hole in the corrugated wall to allow fresh air into the bunkers if the bunker ran short of coal the bunker below would blow back resulting in black coal dust filling the area. Also methane gas would fill the bunker BA sets would be outside the bunker. The pipe you see at 41.40 was for the spillage from the magnetic seperators on conveyors No9 and 10 scrap metal would be thrown into a metal cart and lowered down below to the 40ft level the pipe was a alternative . I think that pipe blocked up after a week. The large cable reels was for the shuttle conveyor down below which would travel back and forth over the coal bunkers what I can remember six bunkers for each unit A.B.C.D.E.F. each held 500tons of coal the shuttle conveyor had a flap valve when A.B.C. was full the operator on the control panel would change the flap to feed D.E.F. also changing the direction of the conveyor.
Thank you for telling us these places are really interesting and it’s nice to know what certain parts was used for
Talking about the lights going out over winter and we have power stations like this sat doing nothing.
Thank you guys, great explore, don't worry about it being a bit dark, we understand, but you lit up the bits that were very interesting, and that's the main thing. Thanks again for taking us with you😁❤️👍
I'd love to explore this place but I've never found a way in, great video
Thanks we will be watching from security 😀 😊
@@chrishowsrth79 shut up yo security is azz
I'd like to do this place looks awesome.. cool place
Your videos are great mate but please turn your phone on its side and record in landscape.
I keep forgetting to do that I’ve filmed a few in landscape
Did you get up on top of the chimney?
No it was locked with bolts
We couldn't even get access to the stack when we were working there.
when did it shut down
March 2020
How did you get in where about
It’s a power station there’s loads of ways in
Can't say where security and police check these comments and go and patch the holes, you just gotta look for one
Sorry I haven't been on. On medicine for kidney stones.
Hope you get better soon
@@abandoneduk4640 Thank you ❤
I removed over 10,000 pigeons in 4years from 160ft level. When all 4 units were running at full capacity it was a scary place to work!
Soot blower gearboxes... Bane of my life🙄
Nah, working in The Dead Space just after Hertel or CBR had stripped the lagging was the killer.