Trash Racks & Bar Screens

Industry & Application Experience: Cambridge Water Screen Systems designs and fabricates custom Trash Racks and Bar Screens for cooling or processing water at power plants and industrial facilities, as well as, for stormwater, wastewater treatment and other applications. Our experience includes both new construction and replacement projects, as well as, reverse engineering old systems to repair or replace damaged equipment.

Trash Rack 20 Feet Tall

Trash Rack with 2 inch x 2 inch Opening

Trash Racks with heavy duty frames for water intake at an oil refinery

Trash Rack with reinforced 3/8” mesh overlay and interlocking sections. Part of a 60-foot sectional system at a power plant that is installed when their large traveling screens are pulled out of the river for maintenance.

System Design & PE Certification: Our engineers will design custom Trash Racks and Bar Screens to meet a wide range of bar thickness, spacing and project-specific requirements. The final design will receive a PE certification stamp if required. We design our Water Screen Systems per ASD (Allowable Stress Design) specifications. The PE stamp confirms our calculations that the screens and frames can withstand the loading from the forces due to the given flow rate, the dimensions of the water intake opening, and screen clogging percentage.

Trash Rack Engineered Shop Drawings

Fabrication Material: We fabricate our Trash Rack and Bar Screen systems in carbon and galvanized steel, and T304 and T316 stainless steel.

Trash Rack Stainless Steel

Trash Rack Galvanized

Trash Rack Custom Fabrication

Features: We design Trash Rack and Bar Screen systems with many options:

• Engineered lifting points.
• Single units or multiple interlocking sections.
• New guide channels (if needed) for installation, maintenance and cleaning that can be embedded in the concrete or bolted to the intake structure.

Trash Rack with engineered lifting points

Trash Racks with guide channels for lifting and cleaning for a municipal water intake on a river.

Our experience covers a wide range of environments and industries:

• Protecting pumps and downstream systems.
• Heat reduction systems (cooling towers).
• Water used in processing.
• Preventing invasive fish eggs from entering hatcheries.
• Chemical and other manufacturing plants.
• Power plants.
• Municipal & Agricultural projects.

Cambridge provides custom engineered solutions and manufacturing of new and replacement Traveling and Static Water Screen Systems.

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