Finland, a market in expansion

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In the European market, the Nordic countries are one of our main focuses, which is why Finland is key in Genesal Energy’s international strategy.

One of our latest projects has taken us to Finland’s west coast. Our client needed a 60/66 kVA genset to shield a church of great historical value against fire.

The result is an emergency unit which, in the event of a mains failure, will provide the power necessary so that the fire extinguishing system doesn’t fail.

Features

  • 110A Automatic Transfer System integrated in the genset’s control panel.
  • 200 litre fuel tank integrated in the base-frame with a leakage tray for oil, coolant and fuel.
  • Manual oil extraction pump.
  • 4-pole manual breaker, with LS/I protection and trip contact wired to the panel.

Emergency power to guarantee security in a Data Centre in Madrid

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One of our latest ‘turnkey’ orders has been the delivery, set-up and installation of two 1,250 kVA gensets, model GEN1250T, for a data centre in Madrid.

Comprehensive service is one of our strong points, an element that sets us apart because we offer the client the possibility to have a project that’s one hundred percent specialised from the beginning to the end of the process, right at their fingertips.

Data Centres or Data Processing Centres (DPCs) are specially designed environments which house complex and modern computer equipment, from computers to storage or network systems. They are facilities in which any electrical failure is a catastrophe as these types of instances can paralyze companies and risk the great amount of information they manage. For this reason, generator sets are vital in Data Centres as the service they provide must be continuous, without interruption.

Emergency power to guarantee security in a Data Centre in Madrid

In this case, we designed two special gensets for our client with the goal of adapting them to the data centre. Both have special base frames which fit into the very same structure that held the previous units, which were already almost 20 years old and obsolete. The gensets were, therefore, tailor-made. At Genesal Energy we took care of all bureaucratic procedures (Municipal procedures, street cut-offs…), as well as all loading and unloading works.

Besides, the gensets were transported to and installed in the building, causing the least possible impact in the area, which is why these tasks were carried out during two consecutive Sundays: the dismounting of the old units and set up of the new ones.

Features

  • Parallel operation between the units.
  • 2,000 A motorized genset breakers.
  • Level sensors in the genset’s fuel tank for the management of the external fuel transfer system.
  • Modbus RS-232/485 communication module.
  • Remote alarms in the form of dry contacts.
  • Engine cooling liquid recirculation and heating system to provide the correct temperature at start-up.
  • Spring type Silemblocks underneath the unit’s baseframe along with the engine-alternator assembly’s anti-vibration mounts to achieve a greater insulation.

Backup Generator Systems for Deportivo Alavés Mendizorrotza Stadium

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The expansion of Mendizorroza stadium in Vitoria, home to Spain’s La Liga football team Deportivo Alaves, will include energy designed by Genesal Energy.

Should the mains system go down at any time, the Genesal Energy generator will automatically kick in (pun intended), guaranteeing that the thousands of fans watching the match will not miss any of the action in the newly expanded stadium.

The Mendizorroza stadium is undergoing an investment of 50 million Euros, which will include an increase in capacity from 19,800 seats to 32,000. The 62% addition in spectator capacity forms a part of one the most ambitious undertakings to ever happen in the history of Deportivo Alaves. Overall, the expansion is not just about remodelling the stadium, it will also have a positive impact on the surrounding areas.

Settings such as Mendizorroza, are not only used for top flight Spanish football matches, they are also used for large events such as concerts. It means the role of the genset is fundamental in guaranteeing with efficiency the safety and continued enjoyment of events which congregate thousands of people in one place.

 To ensure efficiency and peoples wellbeing are met, the genset supplied by GENESAL ENERGY is very special, designed with a high capacity and an oversized alternator to meet the load peaks that will be demanded from it. The genset offers 650kVA emergency power rating in a sound proofed cabin, and employs a highly reliable engine prepared to immediately take on the required loads in any circumstances should the mains grid itself fail. While also maintaining constant and stable frequency and voltage values.

Oversized Alternator

Another of the peculiarities of the genset is its oversized alternator, for supplying the energy needed to the stadiums metal halide lamps. Both in luminosity and colour, these types of lamps are considered very high performance. They do however have an issue, which is the very high voltage peak reached in the start-up and a switch on phase of between 5 and 10 minutes when cold.

The oversized alternator is chosen because the lights will be switched on by the generator when they are already “hot” from being in use via the mains grid. After a mains grid failure this heat causes a highly reactive charge due to the voltage intensity passing through the condensers, which could destabilise the gensets voltage if it is has not been calculated correctly.

Soundproofed in a specially prepared room

Conscious of the issues faced, Genesal Energy has chosen an alternator specifically designed to supply the required load and re-establish stadium lighting in the minimum time possible.

The Mendizorroza stadium genset includes an electric motor which permits a constant level of frequency for continued power supply, and can recuperate very quickly from the sudden load impact during start-up.

Whilst the genset could easily be installed in the exterior, in this case a made to measure room will be used to place the generator inside, therefore reducing sound emissions and affording a much better acoustic environment in the surrounding area.

Specialised generator set for a business center in Sweden

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We take the best energy to Sweden.

Europe is a strategic market and one of our latest projects has taken us to Sweden, a country in which we’ve consolidated our position thanks to, in great part, the gensets from our Low Temperatures range –prepared to operate in especially adverse conditions with thermometers hitting below zero-.

In this case, the client’s order was different. It consisted in providing a genset specially designed to operate in parallel to mains in an office building. The project was materialized in a 150-165 kVA genset capable of providing emergency power in the event of a mains failure and ensuring that nothing fails and that everything is in order, from the cooling to the lighting system.

Features

  • 1,700 L fuel tank integrated in the baseframe including a leakage tray with capacity for 110% the fuel tank’s capacity.
  • Parallel to mains with ATS integrated in the genset’s control panel.

We’re in Austria, the demanding Central European market

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100-110 kVA genset to be mounted on a trailer in Austria, for the genset fleet of an important telecommunications company.

Features

  • Engine compliant with mobile genset exhaust gas emission standards.
  • Prepared to operate in island mode as well as in parallel with mains.
  • 425L baseframe fuel tank integrated into the soundproof canopy, with leakage collection tray.
  • Air and exhaust gas outlets adapted to the client’s needs to fit with the genset room’s layout.
  • Mains breaker (ATS system) integrated into the genset’s control panel.

More projects in Mexico: emergency power for Topolobampo II

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Another accomplishment by our branch office in Mexico.

We’ve been able to supply a 220 kVA genset under CFE (Comisión Federal de Electricidad or Federal Electricity Commission) specifications. Said generator set will supply power to the Topolobampo II (Sinaloa) switching substation, guaranteeing power to one of the most important ports of entry of the mexican pacific coast.

Features

  • RAL 1021 yellow canopy according to CFE specification W4700-10.
  • 24v starting system.
  • 4 pole & 630A transfer system.
  • Heaters in the alternator’s windings.

We designed a mobile genset adapted to the needs of our client, to start up at low temperatures in Finland

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The close relationship we have with our distributors has lead us to supply a 130/142 kVA trailer-mounted genset, with weight limitations and prepared to be moved around in unfavourable meterological conditions.

Features

  • Mobile unit, mounted on a road-approved trailer, with M+S tires.
  • Compliance with emission standards for mobile gensets.
  • 250 litre fuel tank integrated into the base frame, specially designed to not excede the requested weight limits.
  • Cable drum to accommodate 15 metres of rubber cable of the H07RN-F 5G35 type located on the trailer’s tow bar.
  • Manual 4 pole breaker, with LS/I protection and minimum voltage coil.
  • 125 A external socket, with differential and thermal protection.
  • Power outlet busbar with access from the outside.
  • Average sound level of 74 dB(A) at 7 metres.

Supply of two generators to a fish farm in Norway

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We’ve supplied two 660 kVA gensets through our distributors in Norway, prepared to operate in parallel, which will guarantee the electricity supply of a fish farm.

Features

  • The engine has been painted with a special anti-corrosion treatment and the alternator contains anti-condensation heaters in its windings, to protect the gensets from the high levels of concentration of salt in their surroundings.
  • Both gensets are going to work in parallel, guaranteeing necessary power supply in the event of a mains failure.

 

Supply, delivery and installation of a 1,000 kVA generator set for a CPD in Barcelona

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Another client who trusts in Genesal Energy for their data center.

But not only in regards to supply – the whole logistics management was taken care of, including the cutting off of the street, the heavy-duty crane for the genset’s placement, verification of the power cable connection, connection of the alarm cabeling with the building’s centralized system, exhaust gas piping and load tests.

All carried out from midnight to 6 AM in order to not interfere with the centre’s day-to-day. And of course, we’ll carry out the required maintenance works with a 24 hour service and in a maximum intervention time on site of 3 hours from the call made to our Call Center.

Data Centres or Data Processing Centres (DPCs) are specially designed environments which house computer equipment, from computers to storage or network systems. They are facilities in which any electrical failure is a catastrophe as these types of instances can paralyze companies and risk the great amount of information they manage. For this reason, generator sets are vital in Data Centres as the service they provide must be continuous, without interruption.

At Genesal Energy, we’ve installed a 1.000 kVA emergency genset, model GEN1000TC, in a Data Centre in Barcelona. The client needed a new unit due to the building’s expansion, and we carried out a totally comprehensive turnkey project. At Genesal Energy, we studied the project and took care of the whole process. The unloading, installation, and commissioning took place in under six hours and in the early hours of the morning to not alter the area’s usual activity with the transport and installation works.

Special and made-to-measure

The generator set was especially designed with the ideal dimensions for its installation in the data centre. Furthermore, the client asked us to change the existing genset – the previous one was 12 years old and now obsolete – without bringing any part of the procedure to a halt and while avoiding any potential risk in the process, which also included the dismantling of the old genset and the set-up of the new one.

To achieve complete knowledge of the situation, Genesal Energy’s Technical Service Team travelled to the Data Centre to see the facilites on siteand plan the necessary works. Additionally, the team took care of all bureaucratic procedures (Municipal procedures, street cut-offs…), as well as all loading and unloading works, and the installation of a provisional rental genset for its use during the operation. The new generator set was installed and started-up in less than six hours.

Features

  • Genset prepared for parallel operation with another genset to be installed soon.
  • 1600A motorised genset breakers.
  • Level sensors in the genset’s fuel tank for the management of an external fuel transfer system.
  • Modbus RS-232/485 communication module.
  • Remote alarms in the form of dry contacts.
  • Engine cooling liquid recirculation and heating system to provide the correct temperature for start-up.
  • Spring type Silemblocks underneath the genset’s baseframe along with the engine-alternator assembly’s anti-vibration mounts to achieve a greater level of isolation.
  • – 40 db exhaust gas silencers to reduce noise.
  • Integrated control panel.

 

Two emergency gensets to guarantee reliability of an air traffic control tower in Cuba

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At Genesal Energy, we’ve supplied two 20kVA prime power gensets for a mobile air traffic control tower in Cuba.

They’re prepared to power the installation in the case of a public mains failure, protecting it at all times, as they have the capacity to power all of the tower’s systems as well as the vehicle’s electrohydraulic mechanisms.

The solution adds a special functionality: to change between one and the other automatically or to choose which of the both carries out the function of master and slave.

Both units were manufactured after studying the requirements of the client, who needed two compact gensets which would be easily integrated into the truck with the electrical panel and control panel separated and at a distance between one another.

Our group of engineers found a special solution and designed two two-phase gensets at a voltage of 220-110 V to adapt to the voltage of the Cuban grid. They’re very versatile units, with four different modes of operation which can be selected through the control panel. They’re located under the platform of a truck and have a remote control system located on the vehicle’s trailer.

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Why is it a special solution?

The main feature of these gensets is, above all, their redundant design, that is, the power supplied is done so by one of the gensets whenever there is a mains failure, meaning a second backup genset is left if the genset selected as the master were to fail or if the second genset itself were to be stopped due to maintenance.

Each genset has a remote control system through which the double switchover between both is managed as well as the switchover between each genset and the grid. Said system is installed inside the truck, communicating with both.

The solution adds a special functionality whose objective is to manage the redundancy of the gensets so that it’s possible to switch between one and the other automatically or choose which of the both carries out the function of master and slave manually through a selector in the control panel.

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Ultracompact

The gensets, on the other hand, are designed mechanically in an ultracompact format so that they occupy the least possible space, as they are installed under the platform of the truck’s semi-trailer where the control tower is located. Furthermore, the canopy that ensures the soundproofing of the gensets is completely removable in order to improve the accessibility of the genset for maintenance works due to the limited space available.

On the other hand, the engines used in these gensets are Deutz engines, cooled by oil, as they have to endure working temperatures of up to 30% higher than a standard engine cooled by antifreeze, thus maximizing the reliability of the system, especially considering the fact the gensets will be operating in especially harsh conditions. Reliability is a must in this type of units.