At A Glance:
- Location : Frankfurt, Germany
- Client: Iron Mountain
- Consultant: AECOM
- Contractor: Lynskey Engineering
Products Supplied:
Models supplied: 6no. PPS600/220000
SPEL 600 Series 4m diameter tanks with 220,000 litre storage each
Designed and manufactured and delivered with the following parts:
- Grundfos mixer pumps
Spring-check non-return valves - Electrically actuated 4” ball valves with actuation motor and battery backup
- Grundfos pumps pumping at around 17 l/s and 9 bar head with flow sleeve
- Float switch
- Ultrasonic level sensor
Combined control panel for all above parts plus sinewave filter and cooling fan.
SPEL provided the transport from Shrewsbury to Frankfurt. WRc Approved Chamber provided
Iron Mountain FRA-1 is a 26,000m2 data centre developed within a 6.4-acre site in Frankfurt, a key data centre hub within Europe. It will have 9 data halls powered by 100% renewable energy with extremely high standards led by Iron Mountain’s passion for industry-leading compliance and quality. Frankfurt has one of the world’s busiest Internet Exchanges giving data centre users access to many networks allowing the to easily exchange data to the networks that they require.
To meet strict environmental standards and to reduce expensive mains water usage, this data centre required a large amount of water storage to collect the rainwater from the data centre roof and store it until it is required. This water is being used for cooling the computer systems within the data centre cool to ensure they do not overheat and cause a fire or cut out and lead to a clients data being unavailable.
A huge amount of water is required for this use and therefore SPEL manufactured 6no. 220,000 litre tanks with a combined storage of over 1.3 million litres of water storage.
These tanks were supplied with pumping equipment that was off-site fitted and tested within our factory, providing a rapid on-site installation and commissioning. SPEL not only provided pumping equipment to pump the water to the water treatment room (supplied by others) but also provided a mixer pump to ensure sediment did not accumulate on the tank base. Non-return and electrically actuated ball valves (with battery backup), float switches and ultrasonic level monitoring were all supplied by SPEL as required for this data centre. SPEL provided the combined control panel from which the ball valve, pumps, ultrasonic and float switch sensors and mixer pump could be controlled from, as well as links to the building management system.
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