{"id":65278,"date":"2014-08-08T10:18:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T08:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=65278"},"modified":"2014-08-08T10:18:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T08:18:51","slug":"medupi-progressing-well-says-eskom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/65278\/medupi-progressing-well-says-eskom\/","title":{"rendered":"Medupi progressing well says Eskom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work is progressing at Eskom&#8217;s Medupi power station construction site, the parastatal said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Work is progressing well on unit six, the first unit of the power station that is scheduled to be synchronised at the end of the year,&#8221; Eskom said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Progress included undertaking chemical cleaning of the boiler.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chemical cleaning is required to ensure that residual contamination and excess depositions do not contaminate product or cause severe damage to rotating machinery or valves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The chemical cleaning comprised a number of successive steps, including high-speed flushing to remove loose debris, Eskom said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is one of the steps in preparing the boiler for the chemical clean medium injection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The complete chemical clean pipe system was leak-tested and pressure-tested.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first synchronisation of Medupi Unit Six would be in December.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Eskom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Eskom needs R250 billion to avoid being junked\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/65184\/eskom-needs-r250-billion-to-avoid-being-junked\/\"><strong>Eskom needs R250 billion to avoid being junked<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work is progressing at Eskom&#8217;s Medupi power station construction site, the parastatal said on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,1164],"class_list":["post-65278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-eskom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65280,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65278\/revisions\/65280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}