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Pearl of Emirates District Cooling Plant 1 (DCP1)

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

General Information

Client: PAL Technology
As a subsidiary of PAL Group, PAL Technology is involved in District Cooling, Desalination Plants, Water Transmission lines, residential and commercial Construction, infrastructure works along with dredging and marine engineering and is a complete solution provider for the construction, utilities and infrastructure.
Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Completion Date: November 2011
Consultant: Crang & Boake Inc.
Contract Type: Design, Supply, Installation Supervision, and Commissioning of the Integrated Instrumentation, PLC, and SCADA system.
Cooling Capacity: 90,000TR
TES Tank: 3×30,000 Ton-Hr Thermal Energy Storage (TES) tank

Project Scope:

This mega plant spreads over 5,000 square meters and includes multiple dual compressor duplex centrifugal chillers in parallel providing 70,000 TR of cooling in addition to 3 TES Tanks.

Primary-Secondary pumping arrangement through six 3.3 kV VFD driven pumps connected to the buried network pipes feeding to the ETS located throughout the development. Further, TES tanks provide another 20,000 TR of cooling.

Process:

District Cooling provides chilled water from a centralized cooling station, through a network of pipes, for air-conditioning purposes.

Our Solution:

Redundant Allen-Bradley ControlLogix PLC System; Redundant Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Site Edition SCADA System, and Endress-Hauser Instrumentation system.

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