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Industrial Engines

For a diverse range of industrial engine applications including pumps, compressors, drilling rigs and fire pumps, ComAp Industrial Controllers offer the very best in flexible control options. All controllers can be tailored to meet specific control requirements and can communicate with standard and proprietary CAN J1939 protocols on a wide range of EFI engines.

With ComAp communications options (GPRS, Ethernet, RS485 and RS232) you can receive constant updates on a wide range of engine parameters to enable you to accurately assess failure modes and individually monitor equipment.

Our other products for specialised Industrial Engine applications include:

Sakhalin Island Air Start 2

Two CAT 3608 emergency generator sets located on a jetty required separate compressed air secondary starting systems.

Sakhalin Island Air Start 1

Environmental operating conditions with extreme temperature ranges of –36°C to +35°C were a major consideration in the selection of appropriate materials and components.

Sakhalin Island Hydraulic 1

The hydraulic start system was designed for primary starting of a CAT 3516HD emergency power generator located on an offshore platform.

Sakhalin Island Hydraulic 2

This hydraulic solution was designed as a secondary start unit for a CAT 3512 engine installed at the Russian mainland export terminal.

Ice Challenger

Ice Challenger ‘Snowbird 6’, was an amphibious vehicle designed and built by Steve Brooks with the aim of setting a new world record by crossing them frozen wastes of the Bering Strait. The vehicle was powered by a 6-cylinder diesel engine, which incorporated an IPU hydraulic starting system. IPU Starting designed the system so that the team could start the engine at -40ºC and if for any reason the first attempt to start failed, the system could be manually recharged for further start attempts. Previous attempts by Ice Challenger to cross the Strait had been hampered by the use of conventional battery starting, which were totally unsuitable for immersion in seawater and the sub zero…

Containerised Set for Fire Pump

Hydraulic Start Packages – Land Based Fire Pump IPU recently supplied two hydraulic starting systems for a fire pump packager based in the Middle East. The start systems were sized to provide a minimum of 45 seconds cranking capacity from three 50 litre accumulators. The sets were deigned to fit inside an IP rated cabinet; this was built with a specially designed and built IPU control panel for operating the start system and marshalling the external signals and inputs from the main control room panel. The engines used were CAT C18’s, driving the emergency fire pump. IPU advised mounting the start system in a cabinet; this has many benefits in an outdoor environment, protecting the start…