Ice Arena Compressor to be Replaced
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 1:47 pm
Written by By KEVIN GORDON Sentinel Assistant Sports Editor
Thursday, 23 April 2009
Part of the refrigeration and ice-making system at the BGSU Ice Arena is being replaced.
One of the arena's three compressors and its sump tank are being replaced, arena director Buddy Powers said.
The arena will close April 30 for the project and is scheduled to reopen June 8.
The building's three compressors are each 25 years old, although one of them has been given a major overhaul each year.
"The compressors are the refrigeration, ice-making unit ... that's your refrigeration system," Powers said, adding the sump tank is part of that system. The pumps tied to the units also will be replaced.
Because of the age of the compressors, the arena has been at risk of having to close down or having a substandard ice surface if one or more of the compressors malfunctions.
The compressors maintain all three ice sheets at the arena - the main sheet, the smaller studio sheet and the curling sheet.
"This will, in effect, give us the opportunity going into next year that we'll have one new compressor unit that will be able to handle a catastrophic event to one of the two older compressors," Powers said.
Thursday, 23 April 2009
Part of the refrigeration and ice-making system at the BGSU Ice Arena is being replaced.
One of the arena's three compressors and its sump tank are being replaced, arena director Buddy Powers said.
The arena will close April 30 for the project and is scheduled to reopen June 8.
The building's three compressors are each 25 years old, although one of them has been given a major overhaul each year.
"The compressors are the refrigeration, ice-making unit ... that's your refrigeration system," Powers said, adding the sump tank is part of that system. The pumps tied to the units also will be replaced.
Because of the age of the compressors, the arena has been at risk of having to close down or having a substandard ice surface if one or more of the compressors malfunctions.
The compressors maintain all three ice sheets at the arena - the main sheet, the smaller studio sheet and the curling sheet.
"This will, in effect, give us the opportunity going into next year that we'll have one new compressor unit that will be able to handle a catastrophic event to one of the two older compressors," Powers said.
