One of the biggest cooling tower projects currently in design and development in Sydney is the Global Switch No. 2 installation.
Part one of the Global Switch project involved the completion of a 35000KW cooling system in the Sydney data centre.
Superchill Australia manufactured and supplied the cooling towers for project number one, which was no easy task.
Global Switch boasts a lot of electronic equipment, which generates an enormous amount of heat.
Superchill director, Bruno Saner, said this heat has to be removed efficiently.
“One of the most challenging tasks was to design a cooling system which performs its duty without exceeding the extremely low noise level permitted,” he said.
“Due to the sensitive location of the centre in Sydney’s Darling Harbour, only super low noise solutions could be considered.”
Finding the best solutions for the most demanding tasks is what Superchill is all about.
Saner said the best solution proved to be the use of 21 high performance, forced draft, low-noise SULZER/Superchill Cooling towers (EWK-DA 930).
This cooling tower, designed in Germany and used extensively worldwide, is built locally under licence by Superchill, which is 100 per cent Australian owned.
“Similar towers are already successfully operating in Melbourne and other parts of NSW,” Saner said.
“The tower combines excellent performance with low noise and low profile structure. Thanks to the fibreglass body, and no corrosive inner parts, long life of these towers is guaranteed.
“As a new development we now have also the capability to offer stainless steel fans for trouble free operation.”
The tower construction, which complies with all local standards, has all the right features to reduce potential bacteria growth.
“Due to the fibreglass construction the sharp corners were eliminated,” Saner said.
“There is absolutely no light entering the basin. The newest design drift eliminators prevent drift and in addition the relatively low exit air speed prevents the wide spread of potential droplets.
“Overall SULZER/Superchill cooling towers were the best solution for this project.”
Not surprisingly, this is the third Internet Switch in Sydney cooled by Superchill towers.
“We believe this is due to our high quality product delivered at a fair price, which is why I think these cooling towers will find many more applications in the future,” Saner said.
For less noise sensitive projects Superchill can also offer economical and low power-consuming draft cooling towers like the non-corrosive and easy cleanable MPCT cooling tower range.
To find out more go to: www.superchill.com