Pre-fab chiller plant cools transition for bioscience firm
When plans called for increased capacity of the chilled water plant at its Winchester, KY, facility, management decided to replace the aging, inefficient chiller plant with a pre-fabricated, modular central chiller plant (MCCP). Martek was faced with several challenges: production could not be interrupted, there was little room to expand the plant inside the building, and they needed not only additional tonnage but also to convert from a primary-only system to a primary-secondary chilled water system. This was due to the variable demand of the process for chilled water.
Now the company's modular central chiller plant provides chilled water that is piped to the fermentation vats that are used in the production of DHA and RHA. The chilled water controls the fermentation process in the production of DHA and ARA.