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Boiler Hire Units Provided by Watkins Hire Ireland Ltd To Facilities Management Company For Plant Room Frost Protection
May 18 2009
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With the subzero temperatures coming early this year, a major Ireland and UK facilities management company had serious concerns for a production plant in Co Cork.
A planned shutdown of production meant that the plant's water cooling system would not be required for around a month. Tens of thousands of pounds worth of damage to the process cooling system had been suffered during a similar cold snap last year.
The Facilities Management company involved were challenged to provide a temporary heater solution to avoid the equipment sustaining similar harm again. In reality few solutions were available. Heating the plant room with IDF heaters seemed possible, however a huge amount of equipment would have been required. The site electric power system would not be suitable for the volume of temporary heaters and temporary generators would also be required. The cost began to mount up and with some pipe work on the exterior of the plant room, there was no guarantee that frost damage would not occur.
However, after an introduction to Watkins Hire and a meeting with their Hire Specialist Manager for Ireland - Mark Walton, a quick and cost effective temporary heating boiler solution was developed.
The solution was to connect a MBR HeatGEN 100kw mobile boiler unit via BSP 2" tie-in points on to the existing pipe system. Flexible 2" hoses connected the boiler hire unit via Bauer quick release fittings to the 2"BSP connectors. The MBR100 could run natural gas or 35sec diesel oil. Oil was the chosen option so a fully Bunded 1000 ltr fuel tank was connected. The electrical supply required was 230volts single phase, through a 16amp BS4343 plug.
The MBR HeatGEN 100kw boiler unit produces 1500 plus litres/hr of 55°c hot water. The water circulated at around 2ltrs/sec via the MBR100's pump and returning to the boiler unit at around 45°c.
The site ‘Technical Superintendent’ said “the unit worked superb, it ran with no trouble, we suffered no damage to our plant and we will certainly be looking to hire the unit again next year!”
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