West of Scotand National Blood Transfusion Service

SCOTTISH NATIONAL BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE


W S Atkins approached us with a project to design the refrigeration package for SNBTS at Gartnavel General Hospital. When we were first brought into the project there were outline drawings for all rooms which had various criteria. It was stressed to us how important the integrity of the products we were dealing with, and if any of the rooms where ever to fail then many of the products and years of research stored in the rooms would be lost forever.


• Design Refrigeration Package with 100% stand-by for all rooms.

• Temperature varying between – 40 degrees C to + 24 degrees C for the storage of blood and bone products.

•  Main engineering problems to overcome were reaching and maintaining minus 40 along with oil return caused through plant being on the top floor of a 5 storey building.

• Client required temperature monitoring and alarm system linked into the BMS

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