Valencia Airport: Supply of power generator

VALENCIA AIRPORT 

Supply of power generator units with ATAM – GET pumping system for Power Station

Project Requirements

The safety and operation requirements of airport power centrals require adapting safety protocols and having redundancies to ensure constant operation, which foresee possible responses to possible failures with active protocols and status and incident signals. Moreover, current regulations regarding spillage controls, whose consequences not only cause extra expenses and inconveniences, but can also involve waste processing companies that could be able to stop the installation for the duration of cleaning tasks, as well as legal consequences that could lead to administrative and economic fines.

In this case, the installation had six power generator units coupled as primary and redundant, controlled by three touch screen panel automatons and with Mod-bus communication among them as well as communication to central control. Daily service tanks are filled with ATAM – GET pump systems, one for each operation line.

Inpro Solution

The criterion of standard DIN 4755 was applied when selecting the pipes. Gas oil pumping speed in propulsion pipes, between 1 and 1.5 m/s and suction speed between 0.2 and 0.5m/s.

To detect leaks in the double skin of the main tank, we chose a DDP-25 vacuum system with regenerative pump and fluid separation valve. There are two main tanks for supply, controlled by panel automatons at the front of the control panels.

To pump from the main tank to the daily service tank corresponding to each power generator unit, an ATAM – GET pumping system with two alternating motor pumps is installed. He daily service tanks will be filled via the status signal from the level control probes in the daily service tanks.

 Equipment

• Probe EDM40

• Interstitial chamber detector DDP-25

• Oil pump system“INPRO” ATAM-GE

• Collector tray with spillage detector

• Solenoid valves

• Level switch – SMMR

• Transfer Pump