Integrated Ventilation Solutions

Burgess-Manning engineers complete ventilation systems for gas turbines, engines and compressors. An integrated solution can combine acoustic enclosures, air intake filtration, acoustic louvers, silencers, ventilation fans and cooling and heating equipment, selected and engineered to work as one system.

The Ventilation Challenge

A gas turbine, engine or compressor concentrates a great deal of power in a small space and turns a large portion of this power into heat. Once that machine sits inside an enclosure or building, the heat, and any gas that leaks, has nowhere to go. Ventilation solutions are what manage the air around the equipment so it can run safely and at full output.

A well-designed ventilation system does several jobs at once

  • Removes heat generated by the machine, so it does not overheat or lose output (derate).
  • Removes gas pockets that can develop from leaks, reducing safety risks and meeting ATEX air-change requirements.
  • Protects sensitive components and keeps electronics, switchgear and control equipment within safe temperatures.
  • Delivers clean air, filtered for dust, sand, salt and moisture so contaminants do not damage the equipment.
  • Controls noise, so the air can move in and out without breaching site noise limits.
  • Conditions the air: cooling it in hot climates and heating it in cold ones to hold the right supply temperature.

Get any one of these wrong and the consequences are real: lost power, unplanned shutdowns, equipment damage or a safety hazard. That is why ventilation is engineered as a system, not assembled from parts.

Burgess-Manning provides the whole ventilation system: the enclosure that houses the machine, the air intake filtration that cleans the air, the fans that move the air and the cooling and heating that condition it, together with the acoustic louvres, silencers and dampers. If needed a system can be sized with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) so airflow, temperature and noise all meet target.

COMPONENTS OF AN INTEGRATED SYSTEM

Acoustic Enclosure

The enclosure houses the turbine, engine or compressor and contains its noise, while giving the ventilation system a defined volume to manage. Burgess-Manning supplies acoustic enclosures, containers and switchgear rooms engineered to the required noise level.

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Air Intake Filtration

Ventilation and combustion air filter the equipment from the contaminants on your site, like dust, sand, salt or moisture. Burgess-Manning offers the full range of air intake filters, so the filter can be matched to the environment: Static for the highest final air quality, Jet-Pulse and Inertial (Sand) filters for high, dry dust, Oil Bath filters for very high dust at low running cost and Filter Silencers where filtration and noise control combine.

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Acoustic Louvers

Air must enter and leave the enclosure without releasing noise. Acoustic louvers attenuate noise across large openings at low face velocity, in anodized aluminum, galvanized or stainless steel with bird screens.

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Silencers

Ventilation silencers attenuate fan and airflow noise in the ductwork, tailor-made in rectangular, circular or in-elbow forms.

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Ventilation Fans

Fans move the air the system needs. Burgess-Manning supplies axial fans and centrifugal fans across a wide airflow and pressure range; available with acoustic treatment and for ATEX, high-temperature and marine duty. Fans are selected from CFD-derived flow and pressure data to keep energy use down.

Cooling and Heating

Supply air is conditioned to suit the climate. Evaporative coolers are far more economical than conventional air conditioning and can drop blown-air temperature by 10-15°C where the ambient exceeds 30°C. In cold climates, heating coils and anti-icing systems keep the air above freezing and protect the intake.

Integrated Ventilation Solutions FAQ

It generates heat and can leak gas inside its enclosure. Ventilation removes the heat, so the machine keeps full output, evacuates gas pockets for safety, protects sensitive components and meets ATEX air-change requirements, all within the site noise limit.

The enclosure, air intake filtration, ventilation fans, cooling and heating and the acoustic louvres and silencers that control noise, engineered together as one CFD-sized system.

Yes. Air inlets use the Burgess-Manning intake filtration range — static, jet-pulse, inertial sand, oil bath filters and filter silencers, matched to the dust, salt or moisture on site.

Acoustic louvres attenuate noise at the openings and ventilation silencers attenuate it in the ductwork, with the enclosure containing the machine noise itself.

Complete power-plant ventilation systems frequently exceed 1,000,000 m³/h, sized per application from CFD analysis.

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