GENSETS
Back-up Generator System Upgrade at the UK’s largest London hospital
One of the UK's largest London hospitals required an additional generator set to be put into an already installed system initially designed and built in 2009 by The Generator Company of Stirling Park, Laker Road, Rochester, Kent. In 201516 a Control System software upgrade to the entire generator system was also installed by The Generator Company which has been working with one of the UK’s largest London hospitals for almost 20 years, providing the hospital with a bespoke highly engineered backup generator
NHS staff and carries out advanced medical research. The hospital has around 1,000 beds and
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most general tertiary hospital care, such as accident and emergency, maternity services and care for older people and children. Other services onsite treat patients from all
over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide endoscopy training service. The continued increase in demand for the broad spectrum of the Hospital’s services gives rise to the ever- increasing need for expansion. And, with a Hospital and teaching centre of this
ounded in 1733, this London hospital is one of the UK’s largest hospitals, sharing its main hospital site with the University of London which trains
magnitude the site’s backup generator power solution must grow with it to ensure there is suitable back-up power to keep the Hospital and its critical facilities running in the event of a mains power outage. A spokesman for the company explains:
“Over the last 20 years The Generator Company has significantly upgraded and maintained the Hospital’s backup generator systems. In 2009 with a new build being constructed on site for the University side we were asked to design, manufacture and install a new bespoke backup generator system and a new Master Control Panel [MCP]. “The Hospital required us to design the
system with the capacity to include another back-up generator at a later date, as and when the site needed additional back-up
power.This phase of the back-up generator system included the full installation of three
"Over the last 20 years The Generator
Company has significantly
upgraded and maintained this London Hospital’s backup
generator systems. “
1000kVA prime rated generator sets, each with a set-mounted control panel to facilitate set-to-set parallel operation and synchronisa- tion. to work in conjunction with the new MCP and the site’s LV switch board and Building Management System [BMS], “ he explains. “We also designed the MCP to interface with
five separate substations and with the functionality for automatic load shedding. This gave the operators the ability to adjust specific back-up generator sets to run in direct relation to the exact site power requirements.” He continues: "Our team of engineers
carried out the installation within a new plant room that had been modified specifically to accommodate the new back-up generator system. Space was extremely tight and access for all three generators, day tanks and associated equipment had to be manoeuvred very carefully through one of the plant rooms discharge attenuator apertures and carefully manoeuvred into position." Phase I of the project was extremely
successful and following the commissioning of the new system The Generator Company Engineers are still regular visitors to site with an ongoing maintenance and servicing contract.
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