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- Summer Demand on Gasoline Production Limits Large Refinery at Peak Capacity
- The summer demand on gasoline production limits large refinery at peak capacity. The solution is HPSI engineers temporary system that enables the refinery to increase production from 50,000 bbl per day to 55,000 bbl per day. HPSI modified the chillers with a pressurization system to create a complete self contained...
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- Dry Out FAA Control Tower and Administration Building
- When a summer storm dropped several inches of rain in less than an hour, a FAA control tower and administrative building suddenly found itself out of power and with several inches of water throughout the building. To make matters worse, this unexpected outage happened at one of the nation's largest...
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- High School Changes Out Main Transformer and Electrical Feed
- School districts are always faced with the never ending ritual of maintenance. This particular district was faced with the challenge of updating and changing out a large high school's main transformer and electrical feed. The district called HPSI to create a solution. HPSI offered two solutions: 1) Use one large...
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- HVAC Portable Systems Case Study: Utility Aids Manatee
- During the winter months, endangered manatees and other sea creatures utilize the warm water of a Utility's discharge canal as a shelter. This particular Utility Plant's boiler was down for maintenance. The discharge canal's normal winter shelter has now become dangerously chilled due to unusually cold weather. Concerned for the...
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- Hospital Replaces Air Conditioners
- A hospital found itself needing to replace an existing air conditioning system. Due to the critical nature of a hospital, continuing normal operations without temperature control is not an option. The contractor on the project called in HPSI to review the situation. HPSI designed a system utilizing a 100 ton...
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- HVAC Portable Systems Rescues Emergency Service Providers From Tropical Storm
- Allison's surprise development suddenly brought a staggering 35 inches of rain and up to 60 MPH winds to Houston and the Southeast Texas coastal area on June 5th. The center - whose 42 member health care institutions include the county's two trauma facilities - was hit with devastating losses. HPSI...
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- Temporary, Central Chilled/Hot Water/Humidity Control During Building Renovations
- The accelerated project schedule was hindered by lengthy lead times in the design, sourcing and installation of the building's base mechanical systems. Such delays would affect the customer's development schedules and ultimately its `time to market'. The project's mechanical contractor was asked to implement construction plans that would enable the...
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- Central Chilled Water Plant for a Large University
- A central chilled water plant at a major University was converting a 3000 ton chiller from using refrigerant R-12 to the environmentally friendly R-134a. The time required to convert the chiller meant the central plant would not have enough cooling capacity as the summer months approached. HPSI designed a system...
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- 17 Story Building Refurbishes Heat Pump System
- A 17 story building utilize a heat pump system to cool 411 apartments. The basic system worked by pumping in 85F sea water through an internal heat exchanger that feed condenser water to 411 apartments. During the summer months, the system began having problems with the heat load. The building...
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- 3 Day Comfort Cool High School Auditorium
- A large city function was to be held at a local High School Auditorium. The city was faced with several challenges. The first challenge was the actual size of the event...2700 people for three days. The next challenge was the facility itself. The Auditorium was not air conditioned and with...
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- Hi-Rise Building Fire: Water Damage Drying
- At approximately 4:00am on a quiet Saturday morning, fire crews were called out to the 8th floor of a high rise office building. Fire crews quickly contained the blaze to the 8th floor. But the damage was already done. At 8:00am HPSI's team was called in to provide a fast,...
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- High School Replaces Boilersá
- A planned project to replace an existing high school boiler was postponed for several extenuating circumstances. The original goal was to begin and end the project during the summer break. The school needed an immediate solution for temporary heating. HPSI was called in to design the temporary system for the...
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- High School Renovates Air Handlers and Chilled Water Piping
- A large high school planned to renovate the school's air handlers and chilled water piping system during the summer months. The school district had a few major issued that needed to be addressed: one would be electrical power for the temporary system and the second concern would be the humidity...
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- Large Metro Area Department Store Looses Chilled Water Systemá
- Based on a prior meeting to introduce HPSI's portable/rental equipment, a major department store found itself in need of HPSI's fast response time. The night before the store was running a major sales promotion, both of their chilled-water systems developed problems. Time was running out. All communications were over the...
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- Temporary 2,000 Ton Cooling Tower Systemá
- Installed as a standby system of 2000 tons in case of a failure with the customers existing tower system. The towers supplied by HPSI had to be installed at an elevation higher than the existing cooling tower system to facilitate a gravity feed from the temporary tower to the permanent...
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- Temporary Comfort Cooling System for University Graduation Ceremony
- The university wanted to provide air conditioning for their June 9th graduation ceremony that is held in their campus gymnasium. The requirement was to provide enough cooling capacity to keep the internal temperature at about 75F. The HPSI team went to work and developed a systems that used 600 tons...
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- Temporary Comfort Cooling System for Assembly Line Workers
- To help offset worker fatigue and relieve the burden of a hot working environment, a large assembly factory needed instant relief. The factory decided to install a permanent system, but due to the size of the facility and the intense summer heat, a portable system was installed until the permanent...
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- Revitalization of the USS Intrepid
- Currently under a massive revitalization project, the Intrepid is receiving a updated HVAC system. HPSI was called in for the 2000 Op-Sail festivities and the remainder of the cooling season to provide a temporary chilled water system. After working with the Intrepid's mechanical team, HPSI developed a portable, self contained...
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- Industrial Tank Blasting and Coating
- A large 196 ft. diameter, floating-roof tank was scheduled for routine maintenance. The project's scope included taking the tank's structure to a "white blast" and replacing the inner lining. HPSI was called to design a temporary system to control the relative humidity and the tank's skin temperature. HPSI designed a...
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- Case Study - St. Luke's Medical Center
- While constructing an adjacent healthcare center, the 949-bed St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston TX, needed to maintain uninterrupted cooling for critical hospital functions and the comfort of its patients and staff during an excavation that would cut off the chilled water supply for 36 hours. The hospital needed 2,100...
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