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Here’s a great example of what we do at Expo Technologies; unique designs to fulfil challenging customer requirements all manufactured in-house and certified by our own consultancy team.  Working in partnership with a leading fire pump control manufacturer to develop a Zone 2 certified solution from an existing safe area system.   Project Brief Over many years, this company has come to Expo for one-off hazardous area solutions. However, having developed a new range of safe area systems, it was decided to create a parallel solution for hazardous area use that would become a new standard unit. While some systems in the past had used Ex nR as the protection concept, for this project, Ex p was by far the best solution.   Challenges Thermal management - while the safe area system comprised one large enclosure containing both high voltage switchgear and control systems, the hazardous area system would need to be split into two separate enclosures to better manage heat loads.  Components - the internal design and components needed to stay as close as possible to the original safe area solution.   Ease of use - the customer required a user-friendly system including minimal operator interactions and maintenance   Outcome As the project developed, what started as a straightforward conversion rapidly changed into a fully bespoke build of two - HV and control - panels, that would be joined as one unit when in use. The HV cell switchgear was heavy and bulky, so Expo's design team needed to give additional consideration to mounting points and supporting metalwork, while maintaining ease of access for installation and maintenance. In relation to the control panel, this section required an 8000BTU/hr (2.3kW) hazardous area certified air conditioning (AC) unit to be integrated to the rear of the enclosure with cold air being directed up and over the chassis plate. This enclosure was designed in conjunction with Ice Qube, Inc., a US based cooling system manufacturer, who both recommended the best system and give guidance on how best to install. In addition, the customer required a certified Allen Bradley HMI to the front of the enclosure. However, this came with special conditions requiring mechanical and UV protection when not in use. We designed and produced a non-pressurised door allowing operators to easily access the panel.  Finally, both units were finished in ‘Cardinal Red’    Expo Products and Services Fully-custom enclosure design and build Type-X purge Iceqube Zone 2 AC unit Inspection & certification services

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It can be done: building a test chamber on the 7th floor. “But we could never have done it without the help of our client,” says Marc Le Roy, one of our technical consultants. He gladly tells us the story of his first project for Comtest Engineering. “When I joined the Comtest team, I had almost 20 years of sales experience in the thermal sensors business. One of the reasons I joined Comtest was their project-oriented approach to doing business. Clients need a solution for their testing, and usually, they need it fast because OEMs at that point are approaching the time-to-market stage.”   His colleague Bas de Groot adds: “We started this project in 2022 when our antenna expert in the R&D department, Dmitriy Penkin, developed a design for a PIM measuring chamber for this client. When Marc joined us in February, I thought this would be a great project for him, especially when I told him where the chamber needed to be installed!”   Marc explains: “After Dmitriy finished the design, a few challenges appeared. First was how to bring large telecom antennas in a fully anechoic chamber with the floor covered with absorbers. We placed a rail system to move products and equipment into the room without damaging the absorbers. You must understand that some of the tested products are almost two meters long. Turning from the hallway into the chamber was also challenging.”   But the biggest challenge was the room's location in the building, explains our senior project manager: “Yes, the seventh floor… Can you imagine moving all the heavy parts of the room into the building via a crane outside and an elevator? Doors, shielded panels, and other parts. But our contact person onsite took care of everything for me; we were a good team. Like all the chambers we installed at Comtest for the past 25 years, it was operational before the deadline ended.”   If you have a challenging workspace and are considering purchasing your own test facility, please contact Marc Le Roy to discuss the possibilities.   Since we do not have a photo of this specific project, we picked one from another.

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Want to cut energy costs and improve efficiency for your cooling towers? Scott Smith shares tips in fan design and mechanical drive systems in his article, now in Pumps & Systems: https://lnkd.in/dAzicWHk #Motion #EnergyEfficiency #CoolingTowerFanEfficiency

Why do you 'appear' to see more engineers than panel wirers at LCA Group, but the other way around at our competitors?   Well, whilst not an optical illusion, it is best explained by my mantra, we are a place where 'talent & technology' thrive together. So, you see a lot of highly experienced qualified #engineers who support our long-standing customers across various industries, many of which are highly regulated and specialist. It because of this, we are so proud that 80% of our clients have been with us for 10 years or more – it means we feel part of their teams too.   Meanwhile, on the noticeably clean, calm and quiet production floor, there's much of your traditional manual skills handled by technology, and in particular the #automation that we have invested a significant seven figure sum into over the past few years. So we don't waste time cutting holes in cabinets manually, repeatedly, when our state of the art Rittal Ltd UK machines can do it quickly, efficiently, ever accurate and precise, to leave our panel wirers to do the skilled work that machinery cannot. Enclosures, backplates, glandplates, DIN rail, trunking and anything else glides through our machines – no noisy punches or jigsaws here!   Similarly our Komax machine will ensure economical assembly for control cabinet wire preparation from a batch of one and more. In addition, with complete traceability of all cabling from our 'rather large' cable drums feeding continuous supply to a fast efficient prepared labelled output, with or without crimps, our panel wirers get to do the more interesting skilled work the machine can't do!   The combination of our people and our automation equipment mean we can delivery big on capability and capacity - Why not come and tour our facilities for yourselves soon?

Tony Furst MSEd, CPD, LEED AP is the G.O.A.T. If you didn't know, now you know. Please listen to this excellent explanation of sensorless Design Envelope variable speed pump tech by Armstrong Fluid Technology. Vertical In-line design eliminates the need for inertia bases, housekeeping pads, and flex connectors and reduces piping requirements. Integrated intelligent controls eliminate separate mounting of variable frequency drive (VFD) as well as procurement, installation (incl. wiring), calibration and upkeep of differential pressure sensor. Vertical motor positioning requires up to 60% less floor space compared to other pump configurations.

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