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Cummins C2000D5 diesel gensets at the Abdali Hospital in Central Amman, Jordan.
Versatile onsite power solutions Onsite power solutions can be a vital resource across the Middle East in regions, locations and for critical applications where uninterrupted power supplies are essential. They can also be versatile in offering innovative, temporary solutions in some ‘not-so-vital’ scenarios. Tim Guest reports. ROM HOSPITALS TO universities, oil storage facilities, mines and major construction projects, and even major sporting events, there are a great many situations, both in populated as well as remote locations, when an onsite power system is required to deliver a specific, regular and uninterrupted supply of electricity to critical systems and facilities, sometimes in regions where grid electricity is often unreliable. With numerous specialist companies in the field delivering a range of onsite solutions, this article takes a look at just a handful of recent and ongoing regional projects.
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Supercomputing power In Q2 last year, Rolls Royce Power Systems was contracted to deliver 12 of its mtu Kinetic PowerPacks to the supercomputing facility at the private research King Abdullah University
for Science and Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. The onsite, power generating systems, which a spokesperson for Roll Royce told Technical Review Middle East, were all delivered on time during the
The Rolls Royce mtu Kinetic PowerPacks operate under humid, ambient conditions and temperatures up to 50 degrees Celsius.
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summer and were procured to provide the university's supercomputing facility and data centre with clean, conditioned, uninterruptible power supply upgrade to act as the facility’s energy backbone. Equipped with dynamically rotating kinetic energy accumulators, each of the Rolls Royce mtu Kinetic PowerPack type KP5s has a power output of 1.6 megawatts, operates in medium voltage at 13.8kV, 60Hz, and is powered by a mtu diesel engine type 16V 4000 G74S. Onsite in Thuwal, the power packs have been configured in two groups of six systems each, with one KP5 available as a backup in each group. In the event of a power outage, the constantly rotating, heavy kinetic energy accumulator drives the generator and bridges the few seconds until the diesel engine, which has started in the meantime, takes over. The systems operate under
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