shentongroup’s SAFEGUARDS NEW COMMS ROOM FOR CANCER RESEARCH UK

The world’s leading charity dedicated to beating cancer through research, Cancer Research UK’s new comms room is supporting its London Research Institute where the charity conducts innovative basic biological research to improve our understanding of cancer. The news comms room has been installed at the LRI’s laboratories in Lincoln’s Inn Fields in Central London, which boasts state-of-the-art instrumentation and access to first-class core and service facilities.

Protecting the comms room against power outages is essential, as any power cut would have a detrimental effect on the running of the research facilities. Power quality must be assured at all times and the computing systems must be able to work through the worst possible mains failure scenarios.

To ensure that there is no break in power shentongroup engineers have specified a Scorpion Sterling series 350kVA generator together with 4 x 40kVA parallel-connected UPS. Each UPS has its own 10-minute battery pack to provide protection to the critical load whilst the generator starts. The UPS are installed in parallel operation to provide N+1 redundancy. Should one of the UPS fail the other two systems can take over powering the installation, without any disruptions to the loads.

By installing a complete power support system, Cancer Research UK has ensured a seamless transition from mains power to standby power in the event of a power outage. The generator/UPS installation includes a specially designed exhaust system to direct hot gases and fumes away from the building and an AMF panel that automatically switches the whole system back to utility power when the mains.

“All installation work was carried out by shentongroup engineers with minimum disruption to employees”, said David West, Building services & Facilities Manager at Cancer Research UK. “shentongroup’s power support system will ensure that our LRI laboratories will not be inconvenienced when a powercut occurs”.