Rolls Royce : Keeping hospitals running

Keeping hospitals running

How our gensets ensure hospitals can keep running safely and without interruption

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In hospitals, a power outage on the grid can put human lives at risk. To maintain operation in any eventuality, they have to have extensive backup power supply systems and must be able to rely on their emergency power plant 100% of the time.

Rolls-Royce provides standby power with our MTU emergency diesel and gas generators. If there is a mains power failure or any instability in the supply of power, the emergency genset starts up automatically and kicks in to keep the hospital running smoothly, delivering power in a matter of seconds.

They provide the electricity for all the electrical equipment upon which the life and health of patients depends - including large medical apparatuses such as life-support machines or incubators. Hospitals all over the world rely on MTU emergency generator sets for critical power.

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Rolls-Royce ensures emergency power for children's hospital in Orlando

The Nemours hospital, a non-profit children's health facility, supports families in Florida and the Southeast United States in need of highly specialized medical care.

It has 95 private rooms, world-class pediatric surgeons, a full-service pediatric emergency department and is the anchor tenant in a 60-acre, fully integrated health campus that includes extensive research and education facilities.

Like all critical care facilities, Nemours is required to have emergency standby power systems that can be online within seconds of a utility outage. To meet its power generation needs, the hospital installed a central power plant equipped with four 2,250 kilowatt MTU generator sets to ensure that patients' lives are not put at risk in the event of a power outage.

From the computers that maintain patient medical records and the supporting IT infrastructure, to heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, incubators and defibrillators, modern medical facilities rely on electricity to power a wide range of equipment, and any interruption in power could lead to disastrous consequences.

'Generator sets are vital to hospitals today,' said Nelson Roque, director of facilities and construction at Nemours. 'They keep critical systems such as resuscitation and life-saving machines online. But it's not only those systems that depend on generator sets, everything runs on electricity, and without it, we really couldn't function as a hospital.'

To further guarantee power when it's needed, Nemours tests its generator sets and switchgear on a monthly basis by triggering different areas of the hospital to simulate a power interruption. 'In recent years, we've had very mild hurricane seasons and we're confident that if something should happen the generator sets will work perfectly, just like they do in testing.'

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