A new working
partnership between Europe’s leading water treatment manufacturer for the HVAC
industry, ADEY and University College London (UCL) will ensure that the heating
systems in the university’s significant portfolio of properties across London
are properly protected.
Ranked as the seventh
largest in the world and the joint second largest university in the UK, UCL
owns a comprehensive collection of 422 buildings, including academic sites,
research laboratories, student accommodation and energy centres.
In London alone, this
translates into 320 boilers which underwent a huge and complex replacement
programme last year.
Protecting these
boilers is a big and ongoing priority for the facilities team, given what they
serve and the criticality of them is paramount, so UCL turned to ADEY’s
MagnaClean Commercial filters to protect the investment.
“In the past we have
used various – unsuccessful - methods against a build-up of damaging black iron
oxide sludge, and we’ve had problems with cracked casing and heat exchangers
due to poor water treatment. The systems are mostly closed and equally varied
so there is no option to use chemicals,” explains Dayle, UCL Building Services
Manager.
“Our priority is to
ensure that the new boilers we’ve installed are well protected, and the wider
system is cleaned and maintained to prolong the life of the existing boilers.
Increasing energy efficiency is also important to uphold our ISO 4001 certification
and Green Apple Environment Award.”
“This is a complex yet
exciting new venture,” says ADEY Area Sales Manager, Barry Wright. “Dayle and
his team have a huge job maintaining such a diverse range of systems and
boilers, from 35kw to 450kw.
ADEY has
worked with them to initially prioritise certain buildings and install 30
MagnaClean Commercial filters, ranging in size from 2” to 6”. These will ensure
that the magnetite sludge which is plaguing these systems is collected and
removed, protecting them and saving time and money on expensive repairs in the
process.”
