CoTs successfully completed a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) inspection for GenOn’s (https://www.genon.com/) Ormond Beach Generating Station in Oxnard, California (OBGS) as it nears operational retirement.  The purpose of the inspection was to perform a general condition and engineering integrity assessment based on the visual findings and sediment profiling of the OBGS Intake and Discharge Cooling Conduits.   

Sonar cross sections were captured from tunnel casting all the way down both pipes up to a distance of 2700-feet downstream.  The OBGS discharge cooling conduit required that the ROV be deployed through a removable stop gate grate in the stop log slot of the discharge cooling conduit.  The intake cooling conduit inspection deployed the ROV into the intake conduit forebay upstream of the traveling screens and trash racks. 

The CoTs-owned SAAB Seaeye Falcon DR ROV was configured with a standard definition camera on a tilt mechanism and a sediment profiling sonar to perform the survey inspection.  The ROV was attached to a CoTs-owed winch with a 6,000-foot neutrally buoyant umbilical tether. 

To find out more about our ROV pipe inspection services, please contact us at info@cots-inc.com