1500 Ton Chiller Rental with Generators to NY City Hospital – Paratus Chiller Rental in NJ, NY, NYC, CT, PA, Long Island, MA, RI, DE, MD and Wash DC

When a large NYC Hospital was hit with caring for COVID-19 patients the engineers released their HVAC system had to change and in a BIG way. They needed an additional 1500 ton chiller rental but why was the existing air conditioning that worked for years now to small? Well, the Hospital could no longer recirculate such a large amount of air, it needed to bring in more outside air if not 100% outside air. When you recirculate building air you run the risk of taking contaminated air from one part of the building and distributing it into another part that was not previously contaminated.

In order to do that the building would have to stop recirculating air and bring in 100% outside air but there is a huge challenge in doing that. The building HVAC systems are designed to recirculate 70 degree return air and to cool it back down to say 65 degrees takes X amount of Air conditioning Tons. Now bring in all outside air and let’s say the outside air temperature in 90 degrees the Air Conditioning has to work so much harder to bring the air down to 65 degrees from 90 degrees and the building air conditioning just doesn’t have that much extra capacity to do that – they needed a 1500 ton chiller rental.

Trane along Paratus Rentals was selected to seamlessly and without 1 minute of HVAC service interruption add the 1,500 tons chiller rental. This seemed like an almost impossible task but like we say at Paratus Rentals – We have a solution no matter how impossible your installation may seem, we can rig it, crane it, shore it, weld it, and pipe it so your temporary rental chilled water system is in service quickly. In what seemed like hours not the days or weeks other companies had suggested, Paratus had 1,500 tons rental chillers connected and flowing into the Hospital chilled water system along with 3,000 kW of portable generator power making 40 degree chilled water!

Emergency 80 Ton Rental Chiller to Temporary COVID-19 Hospital – Paratus Chiller Rental in NJ, NY, NYC, CT, PA, Long Island, MA, RI, DE, MD and Wash DC

When the Army Corp of Engineers decided to turn the Westchester Community Center into a Temporary COVID-19 Hospital, they were met with an unexpected complication. The building chiller plant was not operational, but the roof top HVAC’s were in good working order and were we able to supply the building during normal operations. Except this community center conversion was not normal; the building was designed to be an open arena, not a maze of Hospital rooms. The engineers assessed that the chiller plant would need to run to keep the Hospital operating during the warmest months.

Trane Rentals along with Paratus Rentals were selected to install an 80 ton Rental Chiller to replace the buildings downed unit. Although a seemingly straight forward 80 ton chiller rental, the location presented a few obstacles, such as the 80 ton rental chiller had to be in the farthest corner across the parking lot away from where the permanent chiller was located. Because this was a Hospital, there could be no above ground chiller hoses in the parking lot that could obstruct Ambulances or deliveries, including much needed O2 trucks. A trench was dug and large PVC pipes were buried under the parking lots for the temporary chiller hoses to run through. The design criteria was critical because it was a Hospital called for NO hose splices or connections to be underground and inaccessible so the crew at Paratus had custom made temporary chiller hoses made accommodate extra-long underground runs of hose. The same was also true for the all home runs power cables which were also put into PVC sleeves and buried in the parking lot. The project was completed on time in fact in record time to turn over to the Hospital Administrators.