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About Spig Group

Spig, established in 1936, is a global turn-key Cooling world Headquarters is Spig SpA which is located in
Systems designer and supplier. Since its early estab- Arona, on the Lago Maggiore, Italy. Operating globally
lishment, the Company has been providing customers through nine subsidiaries, the Group’s offices are stra-
with an increasingly extensive range of energy efficient tegically located in USA, Brasil, Germany, Russian
and highly performing Cooling Towers, Air Cooled Federation, Turkey, UAE, India, China and Korea.
Condenser, Air Fin Coolers and related Services. The

Fig. 6 - Unico Spig
continuous online
monitoring system

parameters and mechanical equipment conditions Stringent time frame, flexibility & Fig. 7 - Construction
(figure 6). safety phase of the ACC
Unico is aimed at assuring the global performance of
cooling towers & air cooled condensers and improving With a challenging Preliminary Acceptance Certificate,
plant management. Spig is one of the few large components suppliers of
A network of localized smart sensors collects data that the CCGT who achieved 95% erection completion in
are converted into digital form and sent to a supervision just 20 months. Thanks to its flexibility, the Company
system using wireless technologies. was able to manage the preliminary and detailed
The supervision system validates and integrates the engineering in order to meet the stringent time and the
data in a single data base, processes the information complexity as per the project specific.
to check process parameters variability and equipment The engineering team was able to cope with the initial
reliability, detects potential problems, generates alarms material requisition to new more severe conditions
and determines responses. without any high impact on the original concept.
All information is published on a web page, where The delivery and construction were performed without
graphs display performance trends and tables show any interference with the schedule of the project
performance parameters, anomalies diagnosed faults, (figure 7). In fact, the ACC was commissioned two
alarm messages and mailing actions. months in advance respect the completion date.
By presenting data on a web page, Unico provides
global remote control capabilities. Furthermore, over
the years Unico allows design review to guarantee
reliable efficiency of the ACC and enhancing the
customer revenue, minimizing lost time production,
through Spig in house software able to provide a
predictive long term analysis on ACC performance
detrimental.
Moreover, thanks to the analysis provided by Unico,
Spig is able to find an excellent compromise between
the efficiency of the ACC and the cleaning activity
carried out in order to minimize the water consumption
where this commodity is considered a scarce resource.
With an installed cleaning system Spig is able to
guarantee an overall performance of the plant.

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