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Guidelines For Data Centre and Critical Power Infrastructure Design Engineers, Draughtsmen & Environmental Consultants
The Foundational Problem
In the intricate world of data centre and critical site design, standardized infrastructure solutions often fall short, particularly when addressing the unique challenges of different countries’ infrastructures.
Fuel filtration, often overlooked, but crucial for uninterrupted operations, requires a nuanced approach. The intricacies of fuel site blueprints vary greatly from one country to another, driven by factors like grid stability and fuel quality. Variations in fuel quality and grid stability across countries, especially in Africa, necessitate tailored solutions.
Our proprietary product range at iCerMax addresses these challenges head-on, ensuring reliable performance by effectively filtering out contaminants commonly found in African climates and environments.
How Do We Know This?
Partnering with industry giants like Teraco, Raxio, Fujitsu, and NTT DATA, underscores the reliability and efficacy of our solutions across diverse industries and applications, making us the trusted choice in the market. Our track record speaks for itself, With successful implementation in multiple countries, addressing real challenges unique to each environment.
What We're Doing Differently?
At iCerMax, we specialise in custom filters designed to meet the specific fuel logistics needs of each site, focusing on critical areas such as:
– Receiving verification and cleaning
– Bulk tank high-speed circulating filtration
– Fuel transfers
– Day tank circulation filtration
– Last defense before generators
Copy-pasting systems and fuel design infrastructure, across diverse environments, is impractical and potentially disastrous, particularly for high-performance advanced Tier engines. Each site requires customized solutions with its own set of fundamentals and meticulous attention to detail to ensure optimal performance.
The Blueprint Problem!
Often overlooked are the nuances of a fuel site’s blueprint, which varies greatly from one country to another, due to the unique challenges each electricity grid presents.
Sadly, fuel infrastructure is not earmarked to be a critical design area. Commonly the design is done by the drafting team and the use of a mere slow little token filtration system is going to fail and unfortunately it will only be a matter of time.
The blueprint for a site’s fuel infrastructure is essential, especially in areas with high contamination levels. It’s often treated as an afterthought and isn’t understood at all. Some countries have higher fuel contamination levels than others, which is directly related to various factors including the country and the site’s infrastructure as well as human behaviour. It’s common for bulk tank deliveries to contain 2000L of water (“road tax”) and once pumped into the tank, it’s owned!
We assist specialists, consultants, and engineers with configuration design to enable them to consider the complete blueprint design for improved system dependability, efficiency and contamination prevention.
We Understand Regional And Consumption Challenges
In regions with stable grids, fuel tends to be slow-moving and long-stored. Conversely, in areas with unstable grids, fuel consumption is high and movement is fast-paced. These differences necessitate tailored tank layouts and filtration criteria for each scenario. Adding to the complexity is the quality and consistency of the fuel, which varies significantly from country to country, particularly in African nations.
Need To Check The Facts?
Fuel filtration plays a crucial role in ensuring uninterrupted operations for data centres. As highlighted in Data Centre Magazine, storing diesel for backup generators poses significant challenges, emphasizing the need for Fuel Polishing (filtration): Keeping Data Centres Online](https://datacentremagazine.com/articles/keeping-data-centres-online).
What You're Struggling To Find Elsewhere?
Our decade-long success in addressing ‘Water in Suspension,’ Particle, and Free Water contamination in one pass sets us apart.
Relying on standardized fuel design infrastructure across borders is impractical and potentially disastrous. Each site requires customized solutions to ensure optimal performance.
We specialize in fuel filtration units and site tank layout, offering:
– A ‘made in Africa for Africa tough’ filtration range designed for high levels of contaminants, especially free and suspended water
– Site tank layouts with multiple tanks
– Multiple filtration points, strategically placed based on specific risks of each location
Our Value Proposition
iCerMax™’s expertise in functional tank layout and appropriate filtration systems makes us a valuable resource, especially for large Networks and Data Centres.
Our value proposition in the data centre arena focuses on preventing contaminants from entering the generator’s engine. We implement strict contamination prevention protocols across five key areas: Receiving, Bulk Tank Kidney Transfer, Day Tank Kidney, Last Defence and On-board.
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