Ecobat Battery shows its mega scale muscle

Ecobat Battery, the UK’s largest battery distributor, has just completed the second phase of a major piece of infrastructure work for a 404 megawatt combined gas turbine power station for the National Grid of Ireland.

The project, which was the second phase of a two stage process, began on the 7th of October and the time critical undertaking had to be carried out and successfully completed within two weeks, while Huntstown power station, operated by Energia, was closed for routine maintenance.

Alongside the pressure of adhering to the non-negotiable timescale that had to be respected, was the scale of the work in question, which was to remove the station’s previous backup power batteries and install more than two hundred new 2,190Ah batteries, each weighing 160 kilogrammes within a second floor location with restricted, as well as challenging, access, via an outside staircase, then a ladder.

“Following a great deal of detailed work to tender for and secure the agreement, this was a largescale job and a significant undertaking, which involved not only the installation of two new banks of batteries, but also the safe removal and correct disposal of the spent batteries,” explained Ecobat Battery Operations Manager, Matt Davies. “It therefore required complex planning and the close cooperation of third party specialists to complete it successfully and on time.

“As a major European battery distributor with many years of power storage experience and several brands within our portfolio, identifying the ideal product for the installation was relatively straightforward, as the Sonnenschein A602/2200HB blocks we selected were a perfect solution, so it was the logistics of the project that set us the greatest challenge.

“With the obvious internal route to the battery room impossible due to health and safety concerns, because it goes over one of the turbines, the second storey external access door was the only option open to us, but to use it, we needed help from our friends at Mastiff Engineering.

“Deploying their fully trained engineers, the Mastiff team supplied, set up and manned a spider crane that would first bring down the spent batteries as we disconnected them from their threads and moved them to the door area, before lifting up the new batteries for us to position and subsequently string together.

“Over the two phases, that means that close to 140 tonnes of batteries were transferred to complete the overall project, so we’re hugely appreciative of the efforts made by the entire Mastiff Engineering team.” For further details, please visit Ecobat Battery at: www.ecobatbattery.comThe post Ecobat Battery shows its mega scale muscle first appeared on Warehouse & Logistics News.