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Temporary Chiller Contingency Planning – Fail to plan – Plan to fail

When establishing your cooling contingency plan. We keep in mind that there may be other considerations,depending on the application and area of the world.

Watkins Hire temporary chiller units range from 30kw to 1000kw

Watkins Hire work with building owners and facilitiy mangers to develop contingency plans for chilled water systems in the case of emergency chiller shutdown or an extended chiller breakdown. Often this is very critical for process cooling applications.

Watkins Hire contingency plans for chiller plant failure work with you to establish a short lead-time on emergencey chiller equipment.

Watkins Hire always recommend valved and blanked off piping connections built into the chilled-water system for quick connection, a chiller contingency plan can be put into action quickly and the system can produce chilled water again in a short period of time.

Cooling contingency planning
Today, many companies have contingency plans for critical areas of their business. Some contingency plans deal with natural disasters and others with the loss of power in critical areas. However, very few building owners, factory owners & facility managers have taken the time to think about what a loss of cooling or heating would mean to their facility. If the cooling system failed or was suddenly grossly undersized due to hot weather, etc., how would that affect business? What financial risk would be involved with a loss of cooling?

A Watkins Hire cooling / Chiller contingency planning is intended to minimize the losses a facility may incur as a result of a total or partial loss of cooling. It allows a building owner or facility manager to act more quickly by having a plan in place and by proactively preparing the building or process to accept temporary chiller plant equipment.

Although a number of facilities are prepared for temporary chillers or boilers during orginal construction, whilst construction a new building or process provides an easy and cost-effective opportunity to prepare for a tempoary chiller plant, it is a logical time to provide water pipework to fill the temporary chiller and electrical connection points. This helps to keep costs down and reduces the need to shut down existing equipment to make necessary building preparations in the future.

Cooling contingency planning is the process of preparing for a loss of cooling while in a non emergency situation. This allows common sense, rather than panic during a critical chiller failure. The following topics are general and
broad in scope. They provide a sense of what is involved in the planning process.

Contingency failure planning itself is very detailed and situation-specific. Minimum chiller capacity required It is important to first identify the minimum capacity required. If you have multiple chillers in a facility, it may be acceptable to have less kW in an emergency situation. For example, a facility’s chiller plant may consist of 1200kW, but the minimum kW required may only be 500 kW. Therefore, it is also important to identify the plan of action if Chiller 1 fails, if Chiller 2 fails, if Chillers 2 and 3 fail, and so on.

Type and size of chiller

The type and size of contingency cooling required by a facility are determined by several factors. In turn, the choice of chiller determines how the facility is prepared. Examples of parameters that determine the chiller are:

• Electrical requirements
• Ease of installation
• Location or available space for mobile chillers
• Comfort cooling / air conditioning or process cooling

Location of chiller equipment

Location can be a major factor in contingency planning. When selecting the location of the temporary equipment it is important to consider:

• Water and electrical connections location
• Sound sensitive areas in the facility
• Location easily accessible to service staff
• Equipment separated from the public
• Ambient conditions

Water and electrical connections

• Water connection size requirements
• External pipework locations
• Sufficient power to run the temporary unit
• Possible generator requirement

Ancillary equipment

• Pumping system requirements
• Temporary flexible chiller hose requirements
• Electrical cable requirements
• Buffer tanks

How Emergency Preparedness – Contingency Planning Works?

Watkins Hire will work with you to create your Temporary heating and cooling Contingency Plan. The goal of continuity planning is to minimise your downtime and reduce the risk of financial loss to your facility due to the loss of your chiller cooling system.

What Makes Us Right For You?

Watkins Hire recognises that buildings, processes, companies and their clients, like people, are unique. So we adapt our skills to solve your specific property temperature control and climate control problems and deliver temporary boilers & temporary chillers, emergency cooling and temporary air conditioning hire solutions that truly meets your needs.

We have a nationwide team of industry experts and 148 years of experience to manage the temporary cooling systems & temporary heating systems at your facilities. Watkins Hire will provide your businesses and your clients and energy efficient and cost effective temperature and climate control for spaces large and small with our range of temporary Trane Chillers for Hire from 30kW to multi megawatt chiller rental units.

For a chiller hire site survey / contingency plan, quotation from a friendly expert support for chiller rental advice please call us now on one of the regional numbers below:

• South East 0208 667 0088 / 07879 600992
• South West 01594 835834 / 07827 445512
• West Midlands 01922 634 797 / 07825 123823
• Northern England 01695 724888 / 07500 962220
• South Wales 02920 277000 / 07827 445512
• North Wales 01695 724888 / 07500 962220
• Scotland 07825 611814
• Northern Ireland 02890 950077 / 07825 618277
• Ireland 00353 12480092 / 0044 7825 618277