Aggreko plc, a global leader in providing temporary power generation and temperature control services, has undertaken the Middle East’s largest temperature control project to date, providing a 25.2 MW chiller/cooling tower package to the Equate Petrochemical Company during a scheduled shutdown and maintenance at their petrochemical plant in Kuwait.

Established in 1995, Equate produces polyethylene and ethylene glycol at its petrochemical plant located in the Shuaiba Industrial Area of Kuwait.
When a three-day shutdown for maintenance was scheduled for Equate’s Shuaiba plant, a number of operations such as the Air Separation Plant (ASP) were required to run. These operations normally use the existing sea water system for process cooling. Since this system would not be running during the shutdown, Equate approached Aggreko to offer an alternative cooling system, allowing the Air Separation Plant and other important operations to continue during the shutdown.
Aggreko supplied a 25.2 MW cooling package consisting of chillers, cooling towers and extensive housing and other ancillaries. Installed seamlessly into the existing process cooling system at the plant, the Aggreko chiller/cooling tower package provided approximately 20 per cent more cooling capacity than was actually required, ensuring sufficiently chilled water no matter what the weather condition.
To operate the 25.2 MW chiller/cooling tower package, Aggreko provided a 4 MW/415 V power generation package as well as specialised service and maintenance engineers on site 24 hours a day throughout the entire shutdown project.