Uninterruptible Power Supplies Limited has supplied a highly resilient power protection solution to Clarksons, one of the world's leading shipping services groups.
Founded in 1852, Clarksons has advanced from its shipbroking origins into a fully integrated shipping services provider, covering activities such as research and consultancy, shipping publications, the provision of shipping finance, ship valuations and ship owning. Clarksons now has offices in 14 countries worldwide and employs 250 people in London alone.
Clarksons manager of the power protection project, Alan Rand, has enjoyed a 14-year partnership with the Uninterruptible Power Supplies team. He comments: “We installed Uninterruptible Power Supplies’ PowerWAVE UPS at our previous headquarters in Camomile Street in order to move to a more modern, flexible solution which overcame the problems associated with traditional UPS. We were familiar with Uninterruptible Power Supplies’ success in providing solutions, and had no hesitation in relying on its judgement and advice when it came to equipping our new headquarters.”
Now based near London Bridge, Clarksons has installed a PowerWAVE 9000 modular UPS housing three 30kVA units to support its IT and communications main equipment room. “We chose the PowerWAVE 9000 to give us 60kVA output with n+1 redundancy on the smallest possible footprint, and to ensure the highest
availability of systems which are in demand 24 hours a day. In addition, because there was clearly no point in protecting these key items of equipment with a highly resilient solution if we then allowed brokers’ computers and phones to go down in the event of a power cut, we’ve supported this higher load with a 200kVA PowerWAVE 5000 UPS. We also asked Uninterruptible Power Supplies to liaise with the generator supplier, giving us the benefit of a single-source package with the assurance of a well-designed interface between the UPS and generator for added resilience.”
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Two 800kVA generators are located on the roof of the building to provide
redundancy of back-up power. The installation project involved removing an old
generator from the roof and disposing of it, as well as providing a temporary generator to provide standby power until the new system was commissioned. “Uninterruptible Power Supplies’ handling of the logistical problems, as well as the installation and commissioning of the switchgear and cabling – in fact, the entire system – was impressive.
“We now have a single maintenance contract with Uninterruptible Power Supplies, ensuring that our UPS and generator systems will continue to work together. We have complete confidence in our power protection package, secure in the knowledge that the system supplied by Uninterruptible Power Supplies to our offices in Camomile Street kept our systems on-line during the St Mary Axe and Bishopsgate bombings. You stay with a supplier you can trust.”
Uninterruptible Power Supplies supports its technologically-advanced PowerWAVE UPS solutions with full pre-sales, installation and commissioning services, flexible maintenance contracts, remote monitoring, and battery care and replacement. PowerWAVE UPS are available to protect loads from 1kVA to 3MVA+, providing the assurance of maximum availability of critical systems with highest flexibility and lowest lifetime costs. The PowerWAVE 9000 Series is a rack-mounted UPS which delivers the highest kVA/m2 on the market. For example, it can accommodate three modules, each delivering 100kVA power output for 300kVA capacity or 200kVA with n+1 redundancy, on a 1.2m2 footprint.
For further information contact Peter Bentley, Uninterruptible Power Supplies Limited, Bacchus House, Calleva Park, Aldermaston, Berkshire RG7 8EN. Telephone: 0118 981 5151. Fax: 0118 981 5152. Email: [email protected]. Or go to www.upspower.co.uk
