Dieselec Thistle has been awarded a £1 million project by Balfour Beatty Engineering Services for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust to install a standby power system at the new £70 m Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington.
The Hospital is due to open next year, and will reportedly be England’s first such facility with emergency care consultants on site 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The project includes the installation and commissioning of three FG Wilson 2MVA 11kV standby generators, and accompanying sound attenuation and control systems, as part of a scheme that also incorporates the fuel infrastructure and complex dual redundant control systems for parallel soft transfer control and synchronising to the automatically selected mains incomer (dual incomers).
The fuel system will provide a minimum 200 hours’ fuel autonomy, and comprises a 156,000 L bulk fuel storage tank, and three 4,000 L bunded day tanks, one feeding each generator.
