5th Jul 2018 11:41
(Correcting that the coolant system was modified and not the the second reactor)
LONDON (Alliance News) - Renewable fuel company Velocys PLC said Wednesday that the coolant system serving the second reactor at its plant in Oklahoma, US, has been modified to avoid leakage.
The company said that following a rectification of a design flaw in the ancillary coolant system by the plant's operator Envia Energy LLC, the second reactor has been operating successfully and without incident.
In May, the company had reported a leak within one of the plant's two Fischer-Tropsch reactors which led the plant crippled, operating just on one reactor.
"The company's position remains that the root cause of the leak in the first reactor was a design flaw in the ancillary coolant system and not the result of any flaw in the core Velocys FT technology," Velocys said in a statement on Wednesday.
The first reactor is still undergoing analysis by ENVIA's insurance company as it processes a claim.
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