Positioning; Preliminary Notice - Casals QUANTICA EEC Manual De Instalación, Operación Y Mantenimiento

13.5 Positioning

13.5.1 Preliminary notice

The unit must be placed in a special area that can be made inside a technical room or outside in a covered area or not, depen-
ding on the structure on site.
Prior to proceeding to unit installation it is recommended to check the following:
• the structure (concrete or other) supporting the unit must be ad quately designed for the unit static and operating weight;
water mass forecasted in unit sumps must also be considered; supporting base should have an horizontal surface, flat and
regular;
• The installation position must minimize the risks in the event of an earthquake or strong winds;
• Electric supply lines must be adequately sized according to the unit electric characteristics.
The positioning area for the unit can be obtained:
• directly on the floor (Fig. A)
• on a special concrete pedestal (Fig. B)
• on a pedestal in metal profiles (Fig. C)
• on a hanging structure in metal profiles (Fig. D)
A
In any case the following minimum requirements must be respected:
• The floor or pedestals must have suitable characteristics to support the mass of the unit in compliance with the required
safety limits;
• The contact surface with the lower base frame of the unit must be sufficiently smooth and hard in relation to the mass of
the machine;
• The floor or pedestals must allow the construction of siphons on the discharges with the provided hydraulic components;
• The horizontality of the support surface must be checked and any corrections can be obtained using metal shims.
Special precautions must be taken in case of unit supplied splitted into sections and / or large dimensions where it's not envi-
saged the creation of a positioning place with a single and continuous surface:
• as well as at the begin and end of the unit, points of support must be made in correspondence with any intermediate junctions between
individual sections (detectable by the drawing of the machine and / or checked with our Technical Department)
(Fig. E (concrete) - Fig. E (IPE beams));
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B
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C
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D
E
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