Emergency chiller for refinery
Aggreko rapidly deployed an emergency replacement chiller and a 1,500 kW generator for a chemical manufacturer whose refinery was shut down due to a catastrophic chiller failure. This swift action brought the refinery back online within 12 hours, saving the customer millions of dollars and preventing further losses through proactive maintenance facilitated by remote monitoring.
- The Challenge
Get a refinery back online as quickly as possible
- The Solution
Replacement chiller and a 1,500 kW generator
- The Impact
Refinery back online in 12 hours, saving customer millions of dollars
Client:Chemical manufacturer
Location:USA
Sectors:Petrochemical and refining
The challenge
Replace a plant’s failed chiller in a hurry
A Gulf coast chemical manufacturing plant had a catastrophic failure of one of its chillers, which shut down the entire plant. A shutdown like this can measure minutes in dollars and the plant manager estimated this one at $1,000,000 a day; there was a lot riding on finding a replacement chiller as quickly as possible.
To make matters worse, the failure happened on a weekend and hope was fading that a chiller with enough capacity could be found before Monday. Fortunately, we don’t let regular office hours get in the way of an emergency, and we took the call immediately.