From comfort cooling to optimizing equipment
We partner with industrial mining companies and contractors to provide scalable cooling and mine ventilation to regulate temperatures underground.
When you dig deep in some of the world’s harshest climates, controlling temperatures and airflow is vital to the health and safety of your teams.
Controlling temperatures and extracting contaminants is a vital way of ensuring that miners’ welfare and productivity don’t suffer – even when you’re pushing the boundaries of mining exploration and activities.
We help mining companies avoid loss of productivity due to safety risks caused by high ambient underground temperatures by delivering, installing, and commissioning mine ventilation and cooling equipment.
We understand your environment and the expected comfort standards, so you can:
- Get effective cooling even in confined spaces
- Meet your Quality, Health, Safety, and Environment obligations with confidence
- Protect your vital equipment by maintaining the ideal operating conditions
- Avoid loss of productivity due to high ambient underground temperatures
- Get emergency and contingency cooling if your usual equipment fails
What sets Aggreko apart for mine cooling and ventilation solutions? Keeping you in the safe zone
Throughout every stage of the mine lifecycle – from feasibility testing to construction, exploration, commissioning, and decommissioning – we go further. Using our rich experience working with mining companies around the world to control your environment with a solution designed around you.
Scalable Solutions
Mines grow and shrink rapidly over time – so your equipment can’t hold you back. With a rental solution, however, you can increase or decrease the number of rental towers and chillers you need easily and efficiently for maximum cost-effectiveness.
Everything’s Included
From equipment rental to ongoing maintenance, upgrades, and remote monitoring. We work with our partners from exploration through to production to provide technical advice and bespoke equipment packages to meet your needs.
Increased Resilience
With affordable backup cooling equipment and air conditioners available on demand.
Affordable and Effective
There are significant cost-savings to be had with rentals, freeing up capital that can be invested elsewhere in your operation. You won’t be liable for the cost of maintenance of spare parts – we’ll cover it all for you.
Keeping Staff Safe
The ‘safe zone’ for working temperatures is below 30 degrees, and you need to trust your plant will achieve this all day, every day. We’ll make it easy to scale your cooling and ventilation plant to match demand and use our expertise to ensure your needs are always met.
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End-to-end solutions for mining
We’ll ensure the most efficient mix of power and HVAC solutions at every stage of your project and throughout the entire lifespan of your mine.
Mining cooling & ventilation solutions across the mining lifecycle
- Air-cooled chillers to significantly reduce temperatures inside your mine down below 30 degrees for employee comfort and productivity. Our compact units range from 10 to 420 tons, so you can get the cooling you need on any scale, even where space is limited.
- Air conditioners including heavy-duty units in sizes up to 70 tons, spot coolers for targeted cooling in busy areas or where sensitive equipment is housed, and HushPac systems with variable-speed fans to keep noise to a minimum. We’ll help you get cool, clean air to wherever it needs to be without creating unnecessary cost or noise.
- Heat exchangers to displace excess heat from high-temperature processes or equipment. We provide a range of heat exchangers including standard, shell & tube, shell & plate, and fin/fan exchangers. Trust our experienced engineers to size your heat exchanger and help you control your environment.
- Cooling towers to augment or supplemental water flows around your operating environment, dissipating excess heat to keep ambient temperatures down.
- Power generation and electrical distribution to provide a dependable source of power for your comfort cooling and other equipment, even in remote locations where grid connectivity is unavailable.
Aggreko’s Greener Approach: creating a more sustainable mining industry
At Aggreko, we’re proud to be leading the Energy Transition and helping resource-intensive organizations find smarter, cleaner ways to work. We constantly invest in efficiency and strive to reduce emissions from our equipment.
Our cooling and ventilation solutions are all designed to offer the best possible performance with the lowest possible energy consumption and emissions. Where we’re also providing power solutions, our generators come with patented technology to maximize efficiency.
With our rightsized solutions, you can:
Reduce harmful emissions (CO2, NOx, PM)
Reduce noise pollution
Reduce fuel consumption and associated costs
Ensure reliability and efficiency
- Tier 4F diesel generators that work in the same way as the cleanest car engines, limiting carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulate matter. Integrated into your solution, Tier 4F generators offer clean, reliable power to supplement or replace grid connectivity.
- Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) that deliver the ultimate performance efficiency by enabling you to store and consume power more flexibly. We integrate BESS into your mining operations to support your Energy Transition goals.
- Energy Transition expertise from ways to reuse environmental heat with Combined Heat and Power (CHP) to hybrid power solutions as part of your mining industry package.
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Why choose Aggreko for mine cooling solutions?
When mining companies in on-grid locations want power and HVAC designed around their needs, they turn to us for extensive expertise and best-in-class equipment.
Fast Response
With a comprehensive fleet and customer-centric service, we’re ready to deliver scalable cooling and ventilation anywhere in the world.
24/7 Remote Monitoring
With Aggreko’s Remote Monitoring service, we take responsibility for keeping your cooling operational and at peak performance.
Greener and Leaner
We help mining companies build a reputation for sustainability with low-emissions equipment and ideas to help increase efficiency.
Modular Equipment
That can quickly be adapted to suit your mine, available space, ambient temperatures, and the needs of your employees. The entire solution is designed around you.
Strategic Support
We go beyond equipment to provide proactive support with everything from mine ventilation planning to meeting your ESG goals and optimizing your mine over time.
The Trusted Partner
Mining companies of every shape and size choose us for the benefit of over 50 years’ experience in 80+ countries.
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FAQs about Aggreko’s mine cooling and ventilation solutions
Quality, Health, Safety, and Environment (QHSE) is a major priority in the mining industry and we have been helping mines stay safe for decades. We follow strict protocols regarding the mobilization, transportation, installation, commissioning, and operation of our equipment. We also adopt the highest standards of health and safety internally, including ISO certifications.
Mine operators understandably build in cooling and ventilation at the outset of their projects, often spending a great deal of capital to keep environments safe. However, this creates inflexibility and it’s difficult to make changes if temperatures change seasonally or temperatures rise as mines go deeper. We provide flexible solutions to keep mines cool, from rightsized air conditioners to turnkey cooling tower solutions.