As the content of Thercos Export Sales ledger grows, so does its experience in shipping over sized equipment packages around the world. During 2009 Therco was engaged by a Facilities Management Contractor operating in the Sultanate of Oman, for the supply of a variety of Engine Cooling Packages. The initial tendering process involved a detailed site survey in Oman to verify key plant interfaces and thus ensure the end users installation process ran smoothly and with the minimum possible interruption to supply.

With a required heat rejection in excess of 6.5MW over charge air, engine jacket, lub oil and valve cage cooling circuits, keeping the clients DGS cool in the extreme climate of Oman was always a challenge, even for the most seasoned thermal design engineer. Further, with the DGS’s new home on the Musandam Peninsula not only do the coolers need to survive the inevitably saliferous environment but the region is also subjected to sandstorms for at least 4 months of every year. With this in mind, not only did all the structural steelwork need to satisfy the relevant BS standards for galvanised product but the operator was insistent on 300microns of additional paint on all external paintwork to ensure best possible life expectancy under these extreme conditions. The finished modules were braced for transport by sea on open flat racks, prior to arrival at Mina Sultan Qaboos and eventual assembly to their finished height of approx 5m from grade at the jobsite in the Al Wusta region of the Sultanate.