When Spirax Sarco supplied new, energy-saving heating and hot water systems for Kettering General Hospital, it also helped secure Government funding for the project.
The company calculated that switching from calorifiers to its own EasiHeat systems would reduce the energy consumed in two of the hospital’s plant rooms by between 6% and 10%, enabling the hospital to successfully bid for £250,000 from a Department of Health fund to promote NHS projects that will reduce carbon emissions. EasiHeat systems use compact, steamto- hot-water plate heat exchangers to generate hot water on demand for heating and domestic hot water “It’s very difficult to quantify the savings we’ve made since the installation, but there is a noticeable difference in heat loss into the plant rooms,” said head of estates Adrian Coombs. “In addition, eliminating hot water storage drastically reduces any potential Legionella problems.”
