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News Release from: WEG Electric Motors (UK)
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 22 October 2004
Motors to help Sydney drivers breath
more easily
The Flakt Woods Group is employing smoke extraction motors from WEG as part of an order valued at over AU $2 million for ventilation solutions to the prestigious Sydney Cross City Tunnel.
The Flakt Woods Group is employing smoke extraction motors from WEG as part of an order valued at over AU $2 million for the supply of ventilation solutions to the prestigious Sydney Cross City Tunnel A major infrastructure project costing AU $640 million, the Cross City Tunnel will be a vital link in Sydney's orbital motorway network when it opens in 2005
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 1 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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It will remove more than 90,000 vehicles a day from the city streets and improve travel times across the city from 20 to 2min, as a result of avoiding 18 sets of traffic lights.
As part of its contract for providing ventilation solutions to the Cross City Tunnel, Flakt Woods is supplying its market-leading JM Aerofoil and Axijet Jet Fans, dampers and silencers.
The Axijet Jet Fans are installed to provide for emergencies in the Tunnel, being designed to operate at 250C for 2h.
They are powered by 225 frame, 60kW electric motors from WEG's new Smoke Extraction range.
In the event of a fire emergency in the tunnel, the role of the Axijet fan and WEG Smoke Extraction motor package is to improve the conditions for safe escape, and/or the rescue of trapped personnel, by drawing any smoke resulting from the fire above floor level.
At the same time, the system is actively exhausting hot gases resulting from the developing fire.
The WEG motors used on the project are certified to EN12101-3 (Smoke and heat control systems - Part 3: Specification for powered smoke and heat exhaust ventilators).
Designed to withstand temperatures of 400C for 2h in their ultimate F400 classification, they are used in ventilation systems all over the world: in tunnels, mines, buildings, shopping malls, enclosed car parks, warehouses, stairways and theatres.
"We are delighted that our motors have been specified by Flakt Woods on such a prestigious project", said Marek Lukaszczyk, National Sales and Marketing Manager for WEG UK.
"WEG was very much in the vanguard of companies planning for the introduction of EN12101-3 and this is being recognised by the specification of our smoke extraction motors in key projects worldwide".
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