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time where they would then take on the responsibility of any maintenance and repairs .
The new production facility was equipped with a total cooling capacity of 1671kW – split between -33 ° C , -9 ° C and 0 ° C suction conditions . The process also uses heat reclaim to supply a portion of the building ’ s hot water requirements which are stored in tanks at the roof plant area at around 60 ° C . The installation included supply of cooling to :
• the process areas
• process fluids
• blast freezers
• holding freezers
• cold rooms
The group of 13 members then split into groups , led by each EP engineer , to view different areas . The small groups were shown around various elements of the installation , including valve stations , pipe work to the various processing areas , the cooling pods , rooftop plant and main plant room that also includes the electrical control room and remote control station that allows technicians to monitor the plant from any location in the country .
Closing off the tour , Fox then thanked members for attending and again thanked the hosts for their participation . Vuletic also welcomed any further questions around the installation or plant design .
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Pieter van den Heever ( Energy Partners ) took each group on a rotational basis to the roof plant area where the main ammonia liquid receiving tank is installed as well as the evaporative coolers and hot water tanks making use of heat recovery from the system .
The group of attendees at the Dr Oetker site visit found the tour greatly informative .
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