Singapore - Watco Group is a specialists on environmental friendly industrial water cooling technology as Wacon Cooling Tower suppliers since 1984. For having more than 30 years of experience in cooling tower engineering, Wacon has specialized in providing solutions for industrial cooling towers. Their product line up caters to any project in a wide array of complexity. Wacon’s field of specialty is modular mechanical draft cooling towers using fiberglass reinforced plastics or FRP structures.

Their industrial cooling tower products are designed specifically for use in a wide range of applications, from clean room air conditioning to heavy industry. The company’s cooling tower systems are delivered in knock-down state ensuring a simple and easy on-site assembly by local contractors under their supervision.

The latest offering from the company is Aquafan, a turbine powered industrial cooling tower concept where (cooling) water pressure is converted into fan movement. The Aquafan cells’ fans are controlled through the system pump’s water pressure. The pumps are designated to produceenough pressure to drive the fan. Simple and efficient and yet saves energy and maintenance.In addition, they also engineered a hybrid concept with fan-motor assist in order to achieve fan rotation to deliver cooling job for applications with limited residual pressure.

Aquafan cooling tower fan lower energy consumption. Conventional forced draft cooling towers need an electric motor in order to drive the fan to generate the airflow in the water. With Aquafan cooling towers, the system water pressure is utilized to drive a water turbine. This will result in achieving energy savings of up to 30% and even more.

The industrial cooling towers are low maintenance as well. Down time of cooling towers which are unscheduled involves substantial costs. Aquafan turbines do not use components such as electric motors, drive shafts and gearboxes, therefore repair and maintenance of mechanical costs can be minimized. Aside from this, the noise level of the cooling tower fan is very low due to the elimination of an electric motor and speed of the low weight fan/turbine assembly. Positioning the drift eliminators above the fan/turbine assembly is responsible for an even further reduction in the noise level.

Furthermore, Aquafan industrial cooling towers are designed to have an integrated fan-turbine combination which are made entirely from corrosion free materials that are concealed underneath the drift eliminators. The box-shaped design of the modules can be perfectly integrated into architectural designs.

The great thing about Aquafan industrial cooling towers is that they are the best choice for applications in Explosion Proof environment or EEx. The reason for this is simple, the cooling tower fans comes with no wiring or even electrical equipment at the cooling tower.The portable units come pre-assembled and are perfect for temporarily cooling jobs where a quick set-up is a requirement. Units can be shipped in regular sea containers, and once the industrial cooling towers are on site, they only need to be connected to the system pump and are ready to do the job. Please note to check the pump requirements with your account manager.

The following are the possible applications of Aquafan:

• Dairy industries
• Paper mills
• Steel & non-ferrous process
• Power stations
• HVAC – comfort cooling (hotels-office-hospitals)
• Pharmaceutical industries
• Chemical and Petrochemical industries
• Casting & Die Casting industries
• Plastics industries
• Mining industries
• Semi-conductor industries
• Sugar industries

Contact info:
Website: www.watco-group.co, www.eqobrush.co
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: www.twitter.com/WatcoGroup
Tel: +65-31581821

About the Author:

Hubert Poels is one of the share-holders and Managing Directors of Watco Group. His passion and commitment to help the environment and serve society is reflected in the innovative water cooling technologies the company offers. When he is not busy with his social responsibilities, he likes to research about remarkable contents while having a cup of his favourite coffee. He is renowned in the industry because of his dedication and extensive experience.