Patent ID: 6409915
Filing Date: 2002-06-25
Classification: B01D,E02B

Abstract:
A rake cleaning arrangement for a trashrack situated in front of the intake opening of a turbine arrangement, wherein the turbine arrangement is arranged in a weir opening delimited at its sides by two pillars and these pillars delimiting the weir opening are spanned by at least one gangway forming a service platform; the rake cleaning arrangement comprising:a bridge forming a service platform which can be lowered into the weir opening by a crane arranged on top of or on the gangway; and a skimming arrangement for removing flotsam from the trashrack by which a tool can travel along the vertical extent of the trashrack and which is arranged on the bridge, wherein the tool can travel along the vertical extent of the trashrack by the skimming arrangement when the bridge is stationary.