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23 March 2007 STOKVIS ENERGY
Vic Reed of Vican, mechanical engineering consultant responsible for maintaining the building services in a central London apartment block has emphasised the energy saving and performance benefits to be obtained by upgrading the boiler plant to incorporate high performance equipment supplied by Stokvis Energy Systems. Built between the wars,
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Vic Reed, Director of Vican Consultants, comments: “This was a property where the old gas fired boilers had come to the end of their lifespan and we opted to upgrade them with Stokvis plant. “The Econoflame boilers give a very high efficiency with low running costs. There is no question that there will be an immediate 15 per cent improvement in fuel consumption as a result of the changeover. Then by going with the buffer vessels and Econpolate plate heat exchangers you can guarantee the same water pressure for showering as the old calorifiers offered.” The installation work at Montrose Court was carried out by Westminster-based Millbank Environmental with the three Econoflame R307 boilers being set up so that the duty is shared evenly. The Econplates, together with the buffer vessels then not only act to provide plentiful hot water to the residents at all times, but also act to isolate the new boilers from the corrosive effects of the old distribution pipework. A fully packaged Econopress II with 100 litre expansion vessel was also installed on the heating system, which further reduced corrosive possibilities and meant that all plant was in one area for ease of maintenance, rather than having an F&E tank located high up in the building
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