At A Glance:
- Location : Rugby, Warwickshire
- Client: SEGRO
- Contractor: Winvic Construction
Products Supplied:
- Models supplied: P800/1CSC and P400/1CSC
- Large range of flow rates from small 4 l/s flow rates, up to large 1000 l/s flow rates.
- Includes an Automatic Closure Device (ACD) that will automatically close off the system in the event of a large oil spill.
- Model supplied: FP1C/SC
- Has a spill capacity of 7,600 litres to capture a full road tanker compartment in the case of a catastrophic spill.
- The FP1C/SC is our single chamber, Class 1 forecourt separator.
- A 2 Chamber, Class 1 forecourt separator for particularly high oil pollution sites is available, as is a Class 2 forecourt separator which is suitable for discharge to a foul sewer.
The Rugby Gateway Logistics Park is owned by SEGRO and was completed in 2017. It is spread across a vast 120 acre site, with 5 units across this area, with Plot 5 being the largest. Hermes (now Evri) have let this Unit 5 to add to their distribution network. The location is ideally placed, right on the Junction 1 of the M6, within the ‘Golden Triangle’. The warehouse will be 235,000 sq.ft in size with around 1 million sq.ft in the external yard areas for truck parking and the like.
This huge external catchment area required two large SPEL Puraceptors from our 500 Series (3.5m diameter) and 600 Series (4m diameter) ranges. The capability of SPEL to provide cover this catchment area in only 2no. full retention separators allowed for massive cost savings against multiple separators spread across the site. Splitting the flow between 2 or multiple units via a diversion chamber is also complicated and requires detailed design work which can be time consuming and expensive. Furthermore a diversion chamber can have a bias towards one of the separators, sending more flow into the one separator and potentially overloading that system, with the potential for a pollution spill increasing.
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Despite their physical size (the P800/1CSC is 4.2m external diameter by 23m long), their Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP) construction keeps weight to a minimum and cranes are often sized due to the reach they require to lift the tank into the hole rather than the weight requirement.
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SPEL also provided a SPEL Puraceptor forecourt separator for the refuelling area on-site. These forecourt separators are sized to achieve a spill capacity of 7,600 litres, which is the size of a standard road tanker compartment. Therefore if a compartment of a road tanker spills, the whole spill will be captured by the SPEL Puraceptor forecourt separator.