8 March 2004

ECONOPLATES DELIVER HOT WATER FOR NOTTINGHAM CITY HOSPITAL

One of the largest NHS Trusts outside of London has over the past two years been conducting a programme of replacing outdated steam calorifiers with high performance plate heat exchangers from the range of Stokvis Energy System, addressing concerns over both infection and energy efficiency.

The work for the Nottingham City Hospitals NHS Trust has been carried out under the direction of its Property Services Maintenance Department, concentrating on the main hospital’s extensive site in the north of the city.   Five Econoplate plate heat exchangers have been installed to provide domestic hot water in different situations.

The Property Services Area Manager (North) Susan Spurr, comments:  “We began a couple of years ago by bringing the Victoria & Winifred Plant Room up to date, then, more recently the Children’s Centre and are now planning other departments.

We have done this work as replacements for storage calorifiers.   Utilising the Stokvis Econoplate heat exchanger offered the best solution in terms of countering the danger of Legionella.   It avoids the storage of hot water and just maintains far cleaner conditions.   Stokvis has worked very closely with us and given good service.”

The Nottingham City Hospital has centralised coal-fired steam generating plant distributed around the site although decentralisation is part of the modernisation strategy.   Three Stokvis steam to water plate heat exchangers were installed to serve the Victoria and Winifred Plant Room, while a pair of standard, water to water Econoplates, linked to gas fired boilers serve the Children’s Centre, and two water to water Econoplates are planned for Linden Lodge.

Stokvis Econoplate units are not only an ideal means of guarding against Legionella in domestic hot water systems, they also offer very high flow rates and are often specified for the supply of process water in industrial situations.   Compact in size they are an ideal solution for freeing up space in cramped plant rooms while, because there is no stored water, insurers do not require them to be stripped down for annual inspection