New Aquarium for St Jude Children's Hospital (800+G)

[bshumake]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10674457#post10674457 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bshumake
We tapped into the cooling tower for the MRI units next door. This floor will have some never-before-seen designs with MRI and CT equipment so it was one of those "sure, lets try it" type things.

Here's a little more detail about the designs:
The MRI's are unique in that there is a floor below them and patient rooms above them. This is the first time in the world someone has done that.
The building also contains three linear accelerator vaults with 4-8' thick walls for radiation shielding purposes. Two wil go into immediate use with the third reserved for future technology. The third vault's ceiling is 10.5' thick. And yes, thats FEET, not INCHES.
The tank may be close enough to the MRI's to run the pumps off the mag field :eek1: . Still, i'll need to test that one when the time comes.:lol:

 

[erics3000]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10676604#post10676604 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bshumake
Here's a little more detail about the designs:
The MRI's are unique in that there is a floor below them and patient rooms above them. This is the first time in the world someone has done that.
The building also contains three linear accelerator vaults with 4-8' thick walls for radiation shielding purposes. Two wil go into immediate use with the third reserved for future technology. The third vault's ceiling is 10.5' thick. And yes, thats FEET, not INCHES.
The tank may be close enough to the MRI's to run the pumps off the mag field :eek1: . Still, i'll need to test that one when the time comes.:lol:

I use to be a PACS admin. At one of our sites FL we got a new 3t magnet (MRI) and we put it on the 4th floor of a building. Everytime you by a magnet the vendor will do vibration test and such. We had the 3rd floor roof reinforced with some crazy steel reinforcement. I can see if I cna dig up some pictures. We had some windows on the side of a building cut out and then it was lifted on in with a crane. We were the first with a clinical 3T (MRI) Florida.

We had a tank in one of our mr rooms and the fish didn't like the noise. They kept dieing. If it close you might want to consider some type of noise shielding. When the magnets perform different types of exams they can make some loud weird anoing noise. The noise really stressed the fish. I would love to see pics of there setup.

Funny I now am being trained on Linear Accelartors. What vendors are they using for there magnes and Accelaors?

This is one incredible build. Keep the PICS coming.

 

[erics3000]

Sorry for my spelling. I am typing with my laptop on my bed.

 

[ricks]

Great looking tank, great build... The children are going to love it..

One question, are those check valves on the pumps??? if that sump can't take the back flow you beter have a good drain..

Happy reefing

 

[spazz]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10680228#post10680228 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ricks
Great looking tank, great build... The children are going to love it..

One question, are those check valves on the pumps??? if that sump can't take the back flow you beter have a good drain..

Happy reefing

there is a 4 inch depression with a 3 inch drain in the floor so the water cant escape the sump area. also there is uninteruptable power in the room to run the main pump and the tunze. streams.

 

[spazz]

here is a couple of videos from water testing and flushing the plumbing. there is alot of plastic shavings in the plumbing because we had to use a chop saw to cut the big plumbing.

this is testing the tidal surge systems and seting the timing devices for the dump valves. we still dont have the special clear acrylic end piece that will be installed on the end of the one pipe to make it so its not an eyesore in the viewing pannel. that sureg tank puts air bubbles into the water right now but the other one on the back side does not. if you look closly in some of tthe videos i will post later that barrott took you can see the plastic shavings being tost around in the eddies. the flow is amazing with a tidal surge tank. these 2 tanks will only operate duiring the high tide times of the morning and evening. we have to do some more research to se how long the tides on the reef last and what times they come in at. that way barrott can set the computer to control the tidal surge tank to kick in durring those times.




this is a video of the room so you can see just how compact things are in there. the room size is smaller that they had originally designed it to be because of the sky lights that are right outside the fish room.

 

[normanfine]

I will be moving to tennesse so I am glad to see a reef organization there.

Thanks,
Norman

 

[spazz]

more pictures ....
here is an awesome suprise that BJ gave me yesterday. there club here in memphis has t shirts made up with this logo on it and i really liked them. so she made me and barrott these awesome mugs with our names on the back.

this is lonny. he did a great job of finishing the room and painting the floor and walls with epoxy paint and the stands with battle ship grey epoxy. he admitted to painting the mural on the front of the tank. ha ha ha ha

these are the 2 main plumbers that worked for almost 2 weeks gettingthe plumbing done. first is master plumber Ken. and the one below that is the assistant plumber Gaven. these guys worked feverishly to gwt this massive amount of plumbing installed and working with no leaks.

this will give you an idea of just how tall the celings are in this room. the electrins are installing the chains to hang the powered lifting light rack. because barrott needs to lay on top of the tank to service it the lights have to lift up far enough so he dont get burnt from the bulbs. also the ballasts are made to sit on that light rack . because of the weight they had tto anchor the chains to the concrete in the celing.

 

[spazz]

the salt mixing tank. because the storage tanks are 10 ft off the ground we had to make a salt mixing tank and pump the mixed salt out to the storage tanks. this corner and all its valves on the wall control that. just dump in a pail of salt and let the water start flowing.

this is the control box and trip system for the air operated valves on the tidal surge tanks.

because the air valves closed too fast and made way too much noise when the air was vented out we had to make a quick adjustable valve muffler. this alows barrott to slow the valves open and close movments by restrictingthe flow but not the pressure. this also prevents the hammering of the water if the valve is closed too fast. the muffler is just some wadded up gause in the pipe with holes in the ned for venting. you almost cant even hear it running.

theplumbers are working on gettingthe last little bit of plumbing done. here is the return form the sump. it runs through the heat exchanger into an oceans motions and then into the tank.

 

[Water Box]

incredible

 

[invincible569]

looks like no detail was left out. this is a good planned out system.

 

[nyvp]

scott always has to have the tanks that bring the people/questions and of coarse the ooo aaaaah factor
first energy's...then bill's ...now this.
You da man scott.

 

[TandN]

this looks amazing good luck

 

[hatfielj]

This looks awesome! I can't wait to see that surge system running with fish and corals in the tank! Please keep the pics and videos coming. I can't wait for more progress!

 

[Soltaker]

Things are coming along nicely! It's great to see things are falling into place nicely for you all! :eek2:

In case some of you were wondering what it looks like to cut 2", here are a coupla behind the scenes pics.

Dew can for reference haha

 

[pardalis]

Wonderful setup I love it!

 

[AcroSteve]

Who built the tank? I must have missed it. How about the heat exchanger too?

 

[bshumake]

Aquatic Acrylics built everything. Scott does a fantastic job and really takes a lot of pride in his work. The titanium coil is another matter. I don't know if he made it or if he had it made.

 

[ReefingBuddha]

wow

 

[spazz]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10685549#post10685549 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by AcroSteve
Who built the tank? I must have missed it. How about the heat exchanger too?

the heat exchanger is factory made. you can buy them at aquatc eco systems.