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Watkins Hire has supplied temporary space cooling temperature control solution to one of the UK's leading storage and logistics facilities in Manchester who provide seasonal storage, distribution & transportation for the whole of Europe for a major food producer. The company had secured a contract to store confectionary products manufactured during the summer months to be sold during the lead up to Christmas but the temperature must remain below 18°C to and humidity below 70% to prevent spoiling during storage to comply with their contract. The 47,000 m3 warehouse allocated for this contract did not have an installed space cooling or humidity control facilities.
Watkins Hire Chiller Hire specialist Chris Easterlow carried out a detailed building survey, he looked at the situation on site including transport access, available space for siting equipment both internally and externally, site power conditions, routes for flexible chilled water pipe work, before leaving site he carefully analyzed the exact storage method and the temperature and humidity requirements. With his specialist knowledge Watkins Hire developed an engineered solution. The KwikCHILL 500 chiller was selected to match the industrial space cooling demand and because the super quiet 66 db(A) Sound pressure level (10m) to ensure no disturbance to local residents.
The Site Operations Director said
“Watkins Hire responded immediately to our enquiry, their specialist industrial space cooling engineer was on site with four hours of our enquiry, and offered a fast efficient space cooling solution. It did not really surprise me that it was also the most cost-effective solution. One of our major considerations when selecting Watkins Hire to supply and install the temporary cooling system was the running costs, Watkins offered the most efficient chiller rental system which kept our running costs down”
The next day the rental chiller delivered by Watkins Hire own transport and the chiller hire unit was sited outside the building, the 500kW Trane Aquastream Chiller has a dual refrigeration circuit and six compressors and as such provides built-in emergency cover. The three 150kW air handling units each producing 20000-m3/hr giving and installed of capacity 60,000 m3/hr were installed inside the building at high level on scaffolding keeping clearance for fork-lift trucks operating in the 14 metre high bay facility. The air handling units were installed inside the storage warehouse providing a very efficient temporary cooling solution by 100% air recirculation. The chilled air was distributed evenly throughout storage facility using temporary flexible ducting suspended from the ceiling by Watkins engineers. The chilled water pipe work system was installed in one day using flexible hoses and quick connectors for speed.
Watkins Hire also provided a temporary power generator rated at 800kvA via an external distribution board close to the chiller to enable the facility to be chilled immediately, this gave the client time to install a dedicated power supply to run all the cooling equipment.
The company's Site Operations Director explains
“We have worked with other companies in the past for temporary cooling and space cooling; the speed in which Watkins had reacted and helped us was incredible, we are very happy to recommend Watkins Hire because of the standard of the equipment supplied and the level of service supplied by Watkins Chiller Hire. They handled the whole project with same day installation and commissioning, we have place a contract for industrial space cooling for 2009 and 2010 in line with our contract.”
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