MechChem Africa September-October 2022

Maintenance key to efficient HVAC Lack of attention to maintenance on heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems on mobile mining equipment such as dump trucks, excavators, dozers and drill rigs can cost mines dearly. Booyco Engineering provides a range of support services, either long or short term, for these HVAC systems and is happy to negotiate appropriate arrangements with customers.

Left: Booyco Engineering has an unparalleled track record of supplying and maintaining highly efficient HVAC systems for customers in the railway, defence and mining sectors. Right: Booyco Engineering's HVAC systems are locally designed and manufactured, and are specifically designed for Africa’s rugged conditions.

L ack of attention to maintenance on HVAC systems on dump trucks, excavators, dozers and drill rigs can cost mines dearly. This is the viewof Brenton Spies, managing director of HVAC specialist Booyco Engineering, a company that has been a leader in its field for more than three decades. “The fact is that an HVAC system which is malfunctioning can re sult in a multi-million rand mining vehicle being taken out of service, resulting in hours of downtime and possibly hundreds of thousands of rands of lost production,” says Spies. “Modern health and safety laws in South Africa are very demanding and operators are entitled to stop work if ambient temperatures in the cab are too high or, for that matter, too low.”

Booyco Engineering has an unparalleled track record of supplying and maintaining highly efficient HVAC systems for customers in the railway, defence and mining sectors. Its clients over the years have included Transnet, General Electric, Alsthom, Bombardier and, in the mining sector, Seriti’s New Vaal opencast coal mine. Booyco has supplied maintenance services continuously to New Vaal for more than two decades. The company’s HVAC systems are locally designed and manufac tured and are specifically designed for Africa’s rugged conditions. The units are assembled in Booyco Engineering’s 3 000 m 2 Meadowdale premises inGermiston. “We outsourcemost of the fabrication but all design is undertaken by Booyco Engineering’s engineers and techni

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