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£5 Million WiloOrder Credit Terms Set To heavy penalty in order to learn and Arrow put a total drain on THIS YEAR has marked a the lesson ... but learn it they the firm's resources. Additionally, major milestone in Wilo Pumps' Dry Up have. The long-term future of with no enquiries being export· drive with the the whole industrycoulddepend forwarded by NDG (which was announcement of an order for THE RECE T collapse of on their will to enforce this new the central issue in their America which will be worth in Arrow Heating- following fast discipline. differences). Arrow had no excess of£5 million over the next on the heels of Hoyne Heating To get back to the most recent means of winning work and three years. This will be broken and the Hotwork failure - has liquidation, the Arrow Heating thereby earning money. down into £1 million plus for created a massive destabilising collapse was on the cards for Eventually, two major hi year: £2 million in 1986; and undercurrent which will mean some time. The protracted creditors applied to the Courts further £2.5 million the even more severe credit battle between New Dublin Gas Continued on page 8 following year. restrictIOns in the coming Commenting on the order, months. Any move towards a which was won against very controlled and professional strong competition from credit system is always 'Let's Fixit'withThorsman American and European desirable, and certainly it was The final of the Thorsman sive guide to the company's manufacturers, Managing necessary in the heating sponsored 'Let's Fixit' products and their uses and, by Director John Ryan explained industry, but now suppliers are Competition was held recently returning the questionnaire, how it was t he development ofa expected to go to the other in their Drogheda factory. contractors became eligible for special pump unit capable of extreme. The competition was the 'Let's Fixit' Final. conforming to the most And who can blame them? In designed in conjunction with the Some 1,400 replies were tringent requirements of the recent months they have been two electrical trade unions received, of which 600 were Underwriter Laboratory in the taken advantage of by ETU and NEETU - involved a completely correct. Twenty US which won the day. unprofessional and sometimes mailshot to the country's 12,000 finalists were drawn from the Extensive research and downright unscrupulous firms. electricians with the 'Let's Fixit' 600 and were invited with their investigation was required to There have been too many cases handbook. This is a comprehen- wives as guests ofThorsmansfor establish a means of meeting all of contractors in particular the specifications laid down by ordering appliances and then UL, which is a body something shutting up shop the next day. similar to the BS and IIRS. Their Okay, so it's happening in directives are not legally binding every industry, but that does not ut. for a product to have any mean that it's got to be accepted. 'Jance of succeeding in the US Too many people take this marketplace, it's neces ary that practice so much for granted they comply. that it's now become Something like40,000 units of commonplace in everyday the specially-developed 20-watt bu iness dealings. pumps have already been Thallkfully, the supply side in shipped out while a further the heating industry now looks 20,000 will be transported set to redres this ituation. before the year end. This total Admittedly, they have paid a • The Finalists with Thorsman personnel and trade union officials. with no enquiries being the finals. Continued on page 9 The judging panel, which consisted of Ernie Search IIRS, Frank O'Reilly, Assistant Crossflow General SecretaryETU;andJoe Carter, Chairman of Electrical Sector NEETU, found they Move couldn't separate a winner and so announced joint winners in Crossflow Airconditioning Ltd. Patrick Burke, Midland Malting have moved to new premises as Co, Banagher, Co Offaly and and from the middle of last Patrick Baile, a self-employed month. contractor from Thomastown, Their new address is Unit Cl, Dundalk, Co. Louth. Three Rock Road, Sandyford They each received a cheque Industrial Estate, Foxrock, for £600 with the balance ofthi: Dublin 18. finalists receiving £ 100 each. New telephone numbers are • Prestigious International Conferencefor Dublin-Previewonpage4. The evening finished with a 954521/2/3 and 952324/5. meal and entertainment for the PublishedTelex bynumber ARROW@TUis 24875 CAIR.Dublin, 1985 invited group. 1 Building Services Engineering, Vol. 24 [1985], Iss. 7, Art. 1
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NEWSDESK: J-fevac '85 -A quality Show; TCS/CIBS Awards; CIBS Coming Events; Valor Tops Profits Forecast; Expodima '86; ESAB Appoint Sureweld; Ridgid Pressure Testing; Energy Awards Announced; September H&V w; International Cl BS/ASHRAE Conference • DES Po SCAlC/ss Dublin City '86; Aeroquip Appoint PU/ar Winner of WestPort We k Glow-Therm; Refrigeration any Outing th' e end: Eamo IS season . . '. nn MCGrattan _ Diploma; FIAI Elect New Council; ..... Perhaps the '" mOst Frigopol Appoint Fridge Spares; ...... Page 30 Enquip '86; Dealers Visit Tirolia Plant; HVCA World Congress; ANOTHER SIDE OF: NEW PRODUCTS/LITERATURE: Beijing Gas Turbine Show; Dudley Foster and the Round Through-Wall Ventilators; Mini Unidare Award Apprentices. Table. Cool; Unit Heaters; Lead Pipe Page2 Page 24 Repair; Energy Guide; Sweep Fans; Proxistor Leads. GUEST WRITER: Page 32 STANDARDS: P.J. Doyle on Commissioning Niall Torpey Explains it all boils Plant. down to money. PRODUCT REVIEW: Page 10 Page 25 Boilers and Burners: Promise that Never Materalised. PRODUCT REVIEW: Page 35 t Pumps - the Potential for GAS UTILISATION: nd. Dr Neil Fricker reports on r&d Page 12 . work by the British Gas Midlands PLUMBLINES: Research Station. Blowing Bubbles; British Gas ULSTER NEWS: Page 27 Corporation; A Guide to Disaster. NI Coal Show; Low Cost Energy; Page 40 District Heating; NIES Head MEBSCAlCIBS: Appointed; Combined Heat & A Report on the Westport Power. Conference. Page 22 Page 30
Northern Advertisement Representative: Carol Redfem 12 Mount Charles, Belfast BT7 IN2. Tel: Belfast 247427 Subscription: One year £20. Printed by: Mercury Print Ltd, 5/7 Main St, Blackrock, IRELAND'S BUILDING SERVICES MAGAZINE Co Dublin. Ail editorial contents and aU advertisements prepared by the publishers, Irish Trade & Technical Publications Ltd, 1985. l'ublished by: Irish "1 rade & Technical Publications Ltd, 5/7 Main Street, Blackrock, Co Dublm, Tel: 885001 Telex: 92258. Irish Heating & Ventilating News circulates to k~y executives in the Managing Director: Gerard J Murphy heatin~. ventilatin~. air conditioning. refrigeration. sanitaryware, Editor: Patnck Lehane plumbmg and environmental control industries. Its circulation also mcludes energy managers, architects, Advertisement Manager: Joe Warren designers, sanitary engineers, environmental engineers and 1I building merchants in the 32 [I AB r.... counties of Ireland.
Published by ARROW@TU Dublin, 1985 Iri. THE SECOND London HEVAC Show (at Olympia 2, London, 21-23 May) achieved all CIBS HEVAC'85 it promised by attracting a quality, specialist audience of COMING 8,175 trade-only visitors. By the EVENTS -A QUALITY end of the three days, exhibitors were expressing their delight and satisfaction at the high quality of 13.10.85 the attendance and the high Annual Golf Outing SHOW numbers ofvisiting specifiers and Hermitage Golf consultants. Club, Dublin 15.10.85 TCS/CIBS AWARDS Promises Promises Take 4 Production. GERRY CURRAN, Managing John Player Theatre. Director, TCS, presented the prizes at the annual TCS/CIBS student awards evening in the engineers club last month. First prize of £200 went to John Denny for an excellent paper on contract management. Second ESAB prize was awarded to Pat Sheehan (air conditioning Appoint controls) and the third to Peter O'Callaghan (Natural Gas in Dublin). Sureweld Adjudicators Hugh Munro ESAB Ltd, the Gillingham and Seamus Homan comple based welding equipment and mented all participating consumables supplier have students on the high standard of announced the appointment of submitted projects. Sureweld International Ltd as CIBS have every reason to be the distributor of the ESAB indebted to Gerry Curran for range of welding equipment his continued generous • Gerry Curran, TCS, with Paddy Clonan, Chairman, CIBSE; John Denny, College of Technology, Bolton Street; and Eoin Kenny Vice-President and consumables in the sponsorship of this important C1BSE. " Republic. annual event which creates such Based in Lucan, Co Dublin, great interest each year. Sureweld, under the Managing Directorship of Pa trick Hurney, is one of the largest and leading suppliers of VALOR TOPS PROFITS welding equipment in the country with around nationwide sub-distribu FORECAST The company has five service engineers and eight technical FULL AMERICAN Gas Association approval has now been given to Britain's best selling gas fire to representatives operating from be sold throughout the United States later this year. The Valor Homeflame log fire, with energy a 60,000 sq. ft complex saving features, is claimed to be the first gas flued heater sold in the British High Street to be consisting of offices, accepted from a technical and looks point of view in the US. warehousing, workshops as Michael Montague, Valor's Chairman, gave this news while announcing the home appliance well as a showroom. group's results for the year ended March of £5.7m (£3.9m) pre-tax on £86.4m (£75m) sales Sureweld International Ltd £100,000 above the forecast made in February at the time of the £7m Heatrae-Sadia and are members of the Sureweld Gainsborough water heater and electric showers acquisitions. Group of Companies, whose In the year ahead, with full contributions from the electrical subsidiaries and a line-up of new sister companies include products, Mr Montague predicts "a further advance in profitability". He adds: "We have a very Surepower Ltd, machine tool healthy order book and I am very bullish. The outlook for this trade year is first class." specialists and Sureweld Metals Ltd, a specialist steel division. RIDGID PRESSURE TESTING THE RIDGID pressure testing pump is designed to test all types of installation that have to be leak-proof, as in heating, compressed EXPOCLIMA '86 air and refrigeration systems, oil installations, fire lines and small ')ore pipelines, etc. EXPOCLIMA 1986, the first European" event, at which Features include corrosion-proof construction; needle valves for European heating, drying, European manufacturers will inlet and outlet valves; integral filter; piston has "0" ring seal and ventilation, air conditioning exhibit their products for the therefore keeps out dirt; grease nipple provides instant lubrication; and refrigeration exhibition benefit of European markets. the handle conveniently locks to provide a carrying handle; and the will be held at the Brussel~ Other related equipment and reservoir serves as a tool bo... Exhibition Centre from 3 to 7 new forms of energy will also be https://arrow.tudublin.ie/bsn/vol24/iss7/1The Ridgid pressure testing pump is a must for pressure testing November, 1986. featured. DOI: 10.21427/D7TQ4Dpurposes. Expoclima is an "all 4 2 Irish H&V Ne...s~JunelJul.r 1985 et al.: Irish H & V News Enquiry Code No. 2 Irish H& V News, Junt'lJuly 1985 3 .. Published by ARROW@TU Dublin, 1985 5 Building Services Engineering, Vol. 24 [1985], Iss. 7, Art. 1 ENERGY AWARDS ANNOUNCED September THE MINISTER of State for which will reflect the status of equivalent to a suitable Energy, Eddie Coliins TD, has the Award. The overall winner European location. H&V announced details of the EMA will receive a study tour or Energy Management Awards Show for 1985. Previously organised by the Department of Energy, WITH OVER 40 stands already the Awards are now run by the booked, H & V Review's Energy Management Associa exhibition to be held at the tion and this year are sponsored Burlington, Dublin, in by BGE. September looks certain to be a The EMA Energy Manage sell-out. The Review's fourth ment Awards 1985 are designed Dublin show will be the biggest to encourage the development yet, says Sales Director Russ of energy measurement and Jackson, who has been a accounting in industry. There frequent visitor to leading Irish are three award categories companies in past months. auditing; monitoring and target The dates are Tuesday, 17 setting; and efficient use of September and Wednesday, 18 energy. In addition, there will September. Among those be an Energy Manager of the already booked in are Hevac Year Award for the person who Ltd, Dublin Gas, Walker submits the best overall Airconditioning, Redbro, C & winning entry. F, Heatquip, Finheat, Lenn The schedule for the Awards Brooks Thomas, P.J. Matthe is: Registration by 14 June, and many others. 1985; entries by 19 July; and the The Review's Burlington presentation on 15 October in show has a good track record Cork. A panel of independent both as a meeting point for the judges appointed by the Energy Industry and as a sales medium. Management Association, the Previous events have been Irish Gas Board and IIRS will • Michael Moloney, immediate particularly attractive to the adjudicate on the entries. past-president, CIBS, presenting the commercial contractor and Chain of Office to newly-installed specifier; this year there will be The winner in each category Chairman, Paddy Clonal/. will receive an engraved trophy Aeroquip more for the domestic installer as well. Of the major boiler Appoint makers, Baxi, Potterton, Thorn and Glow-Worm/Stelrad are Glowtherm all represented. INTERNATIONAL Bar and buffet services will be GLOWTHERM L TD of operating and the show will be Whitehall Road, Terenure, open from 10.30 am until 8 pm CIBS/ASHRAE Dublin, have been appointed as on the opening day and from distributors for the Aeroquip 10.30 am until 6 pm on the CONFERENCE piping products range in the second day. Republic. For further information DUBLIN CITY' '86 The products available from stand space contact R Glowtherm ofprincipal interest Jackson or Brian White, to the H & V trade, are the Travelling Exhibitions Ltd, III THE ORGANISING committee have announced that the autumn '86 Venturi flow measurement St James's Road, Croydon, International CIBSIASHRAE Conference is now taking shape. system and Barco ball-type Surrey CR9 2TH. (Tel: 031 684 Trinity College Dublin should prove an ideal venue for this prestigious expansion joints. 4082). event which is expected to attract a worldwide representation of In addition, Glowtherm will The exhibition will be delegates. Accommodation will be mainly provided for in Jury's also handle Aeroquip rotary officially opened by Brian Hotel, Dublin, but bookings have afso been reserved in TCD and in and swivel joints as well as the Lenihan TD, the Deputy other leading hotels. Flexmaster pipe joint range. Leader of the Opposition. Emminent speakers from the United States, the United Kingdom I and from Ireland have agreed to present papers on subjects as diverse as solar energy, combined heat and power, energy management, computer modelling, heat pumps, indoor and quality, thermal storage, clean rooms and evaporative cooling. REFR/GERATION Irish contributors will include Sean Mulcahy VMRAj Professor DIPLOMA Wrixon, UCC; Seamus Homan, Homan & Associatesj Eddie Simpson, Williams & Shaw & Associates, Belfast; and John Purcell, DETAILS HAVE just been announced ofthe forthcoming two Bemra. year C?UTSe at Bolton Street College ofTechnology for the City In conjunction with the Conference a programme oftechnical visits & GUIlds of London Institute Diploma on refrigeration. to locations of particular significance will be included. Scenic tours Specifically intended to provide successful students with a and shopping trips are also being organised for the ladies as part of a "Refrigeration Engineering Technician's Diploma" at the end most comprehensive social calendar. It is hoped that all programmes of the two years, the course content will concentrate on will be sufficiently finalised for inclusion in the September issue. refrigeration technology, engineering science and drawing. CIBS Republic of Ireland Branch are to be congratulated on The course will start in September next and interested succeeding in winning this major international event for Dublin. The applicants should apply to the College of Technology, Bolton success enjoyed by the branch in recent years has obviously been Street, Dublin 2, (Tel: 7499) 3) for full details. recognised. https://arrow.tudublin.ie/bsn/vol24/iss7/14 Irish H& V News, June/July 1985 DOI: 10.21427/D7TQ4D 6 - et al.: Irish H & V News A loud two-tone booming burp. When a male orang utan is angry he makes sure that his feelings are known. He takes a deep breath which makes him swell up terrifyingly and then releases the air to produce what has been described as a "loud two-tone booming burp". Just the oppOSite effect, in fact, to that achieved by the elegant range of Carrier packaged and split air conditioning units. Designed for a wide variety ofapplications from offices, shops, pubs and clubs, restaurants, conference areas and factories, they qUietly and efficiently provide a clean and temperature controlled atmosphere to make life more bearable. Heating and cooling or cooling only, there's a model to suit your needs either conventionally or energy saving heat pump operated. And, there is also the Moduline Variable Air Volume range ofterminals to provide draught free air circulation. Whichever Carrier product you choose, you can rely on the Walker Air Conditioning design, commissioning and after sales service support. Just ask us. ~ WALKER AIR CONDITIONING . dl" Glasgow Dublin Belfast wO'~n:n:;I~~i,;.,'i:'~I.:::'y",ng 041-8870551 300844 023185234 (:<) A member of the Jefferson Smurfii Group Published by ARROW@TU Dublin, 1985 7 Building Services Engineering, Vol. 24 [1985], Iss. 7, Art. 1 Unidare Awards Apprentices ~---I IN THE School of Trades, Colleges of Technology, Bolton Street, recently, this year's five leading plumbing apprentices from technical colleges throughout the 26 counties were each presented with commemo rative plaques by Tommy Timmins, Product Manager, Unidare Terrain - the sponsors of this category in the annual National Apprentice competi tions. Two of the recipients were from Dublin - Daragh Leavey (Dublin 12) and Patrick Russell (Artane)j two from Cork Eugene O'Callaghan (Kinsale) and Robert Wolfe (Montenotte) and the fifth was Thomas Colley from Naas. From the five apprentices one will be selected to receive a silver • Robert Wolfe with Patrick Russell, Eugene O'Callaghan; Frank Downey, Asst. Product Manager, Unidare Terrain; medal, plus the possibility to win Daragh Leavey and Thomas Colley. a trip to Japan as a member of the Irish apprentices team to compete in the International apprenticeship categories. Six Medal. On that occasion Tokyo of Irish people to be sent there. Skill Olympics. years ago the City of Cork was the venue, whereas this year Brian is now successfullY This is an event of major played host to the event and in the team will travel to Osaki. The running his own heating and importance and takes place only 1970, when it was held in Japan, fact that Brian won the top prize plumbing company in Firhouse, every three years in different the Irish plumbing apprentice, could well be a significant point Dublin, and knows he picked up locations and comprises Brian Jordan won the coveted when the Department of valuable knowledge from his competitions in the full range of World Championship Gold Education considers the number short Japanese trip. Enquiry Code No. 4. Iri,h H& V News. June/July 1985 https://arrow.tudublin.ie/bsn/vol24/iss7/1 DOI: 10.21427/D7TQ4D 8 et al.: Irish H & V News Dealers Visit Tirolia Plant A GROUP of 28 Tirolia Ireland dealers recently undertook a four-day visit to the company's manufacturing plant in Austria. The group, accompanied by the new Tirolia Managing Director in Ireland, Paddy Cunningham, saw the design and production unit for the Tirolia Tara, their top selling unit on the Irish market. At present 30% of Tirolia's entire output is exported with • The Tirolia party pictured outside the company's parent plant in Austria during theirfour-day visit in June. their products being marketed 20 countries worldwide. eland, which accounts for and its production lines also 29.6% of Tirolia exports, is include wood and coal the company's largest market. burning stoves, boilers, gas Beijing Gas Turbine Tirolia employs 300 people and electrical cookers. Show THE BEIJING International Gas Turbine Symposium and Exposition represents the first time that the Gas Turbine Division has sponsored two conferences and exhibits in a single year. This HVCA World Congress Symposium, co-sponsored by the Chinese Society of Aeronautics for CLIMA 2000. The World and Astronautics and the China National Aero-Technology Import CLIMA 2000, the first World and Export Corporation, has grown to a size first reached by the Congress, sponsored by Congress to be held on heating, International Gas Turbine Conference only in 1978. REHVA, ASHRAE, Cm~d ventilating and air condition The technical program at this point consists ofabout 180 papers, HR, represents a unique ing, takes place in Copenhagen 40 per cent of which are from China. The program includes large opportunity to compare results from 25-30 August, 1985. blocks of component technology sessions concerning from all over the world, to Heating, ventilating and air turbomachinery fluid mechanics, combustion and fuels, and review the international state of conditioning of buildings is the structures and dynamics. the art and to identify future most energy consuming activity Additional sessions focus on heat transfer, controls and perspectives in this field. in the world. During the last diagnostics, metallurgy, and ceramics. Gas turbine applications An Foras Forbartha is decade, more research has been are addressed by four sessions dealing with cogeneration, two with performed in this field than in represented on the organising aircraft applications, one with marine, one with coal utilization, he previous one hundred years. committee by Mr P.l. Minogue, and a panel session on industrial turboexpanders. is is reflected in the fact that Senior Research Officer, who is Recognising that Gas Turbine interest and technology are truly papers have been submitted co-ordinator of the CIB o international, the Gas Turbine Division has held biannual Working Group on Energy meetings in Europe over the past several years. The China Conservation in the Built Symposium continues the successful expansion of our world wide APPOINTMENT Environment. He will also be -activities. The Gas Turbine Division and our Symposium Chairman of a Congress cosponsors, the Chinese Society ofAeronautics and Astronautics, Technical Session on Building and the Chinese National Aero-Technology Import and Export Envelop Improvement. Corporation are pleased to welcome you to the first joint Gas In conjunction with the Turbine meeting in China. Congress, an international exhibition on heating, ventilating, air conditioning and sanitation will take place at the 45,000 m2 Bella Centre in Enquip '86 Copenhagen. Further information, copies THE FIFTH Engineering and Enquip '86 promises to be of the programme and Industrial Equipment Show - even better than previous registration form may be Enquip '86 - will be staged by Engineering and Industrial obtained from: CLIMA 2000, the RDS in the Siinmonscourt Equipment Shows with a keen Secretariate, Ovdrup lagtrej Pavilion from Tuesday, 4 demand for exhibition space. 42B, DK-2920 Charlottenlund, February to Saturday, 8 To date, over 60% of the Denmark, (Tel: 45-1-633230). February, 1986. companies that exhibited in • Information on the Congress Enquip is the leading trade 1984 have indicated their is also available from fair in this country for the intention to participate in 1986. Information & Training engineering and allied A further 100 companies who Centre, An Foras Forbartha, St industries and over 1,000 have not previously exhibited • Christy Lundy who has been Martin's House, Waterloo appointedManaK.erofthe Fi~e Alarm products were shown by 120 have expressed interest in Division, Apex Fire PreventIOn Co. Road, Dublin 4, (Tel: 602511). exhibitors at the 1984 Show taking part in Enquip '86. lri~h H& V News. JunelJulv 1985 7 Published by ARROW@TU Dublin, 1985 9 hP Building Services Engineering, Vol. 24 [1985], Iss. 7, Art. 1 CreditTerms Continued from front cover for Arrow to be wound up and won a ruling in their favour which came into effect on Monday, 15 July. rn the meantime, it will be the liquidator's decision whether or not to pursue the case for punitive damages against NDG. Some observers believe that an out ofcourt settlement might be the best and fairest solution. Meanwhile, the Hoyne case has also left a great deal of anxiety and bad feeling in its wake.. The creditors meeting a few weeks ago went on for an unprecedented five hours during which there were some heated exchanges over the estimated £400,000 deficit. However, the most incredible aspect of the recent spate of liquidations is that the principals (or at least some of them) in each and everyone of the cases involved are now back • Catching hisjirstglimpse ofthe ApexFire Perpetual Trophy which he won is Brendan Scully (on left) ofElmPark who in business trading under plays off15. Brendan is the '85 winner ofthe Apex Trophy with an excellent socre of42pts. On right is Alex Wadkin, DirectorofApexFire Prevention andBrendan 0 'Neill, the Newlands Vice Captain is in centre. Over 95playedin this the different names. Until this type 9th Annual GolfOuting at Newlands Club where the greens were injirst class condition anda credit to the green-keeping of occurance is stamped out staff Runner-up was Con Denby with 41pts and third was Robert Fogarty with 40pts. either by Government legislation or policing by the trade itself then total chaos is likely to ensue. BTU Results Pump Services outing at Royal 19 pts; 2nd Eamonn Dublin on 2/5/85: McGrattan, 19 pts. Winner - Joe Warren, 40 pts; Runtalrad outing at Clontarf Class 1 on 28/5/85: Winner -T Delaney, 39pts; Winner - John Loughlin, 41 2nd -A Moriarty, 38 pts; 3rd pts. F Cahill, 36 pts. Class 1 Class 11 Winner -M Wyse, 38 pts; 2nd Winner -C Connolly, 37 pts; -M Neray, 37 pts. 2nd - Eamonn cullen, 36 pts; Class 11 3rd - Sean Cagney, 36 pts. Winner - John Doyle, 39 pts; Class III 2nd - Peter Reynolds 37 pts. Winner - Sean English, 40 pts; 2nd - Victor Madigan, 39pts; Class III 3rd - Frank Somers, 39 pts. Winner - Ray Byrne, 39 pts; Visitors 2nd - Sean Moran, 38 pts. Winner - David Callaghan, 39 Visitors pts; 2nd - Paddy O'Regan, 37 Winner - Hugh Byrne, 37 pts; pts. 2nd - Frank Lawlor, 37 pts. Back Nine - 1st: John Lawlor, Back Nine - 1st: Brendan 20 pts; 2nd: Tony Delaney, 19 Sheehan, 22 pts; 2nd - John pts. Lawlor, 20 pts. Front Nine - 1st: M. Curley, 22 Front Nine - 1st: Sean Moran, pts; 2nd: Frank Butterly, 21 pts. Grada Netaline HOUSEHOLD Manufactunng expand its positIOn in the air has announced the purchase of .:onditioning and ventilating its subsidiaries - Grada nv in market. Belgium and Netaline ADP Ltd The management team will in the UK - by Tematec SA for continue with Marc Paelinck as an undisclosed amount. Managing Director, John A spokesman for Tematec Kappes as the Director Product stated that Grada Netaline Engineering and John Wallis as intended to consolidate and UK Sales Mana!!;er. https://arrow.tudublin.ie/bsn/vol24/iss7/1Irish H& V News, June/July 1985 Enquiry Code No. 5. DOI: 10.21427/D7TQ4D 10 et al.: Irish H & V News £5 Million Wilo Order FIAI elect new Continued from front cover automation which has won the with that number increasing plant orders to date and also twice-fold yet again in the year helped secure its future. after. Additionally, and contrary to Council Minister for Justice Michael popular belief, it is this self-same Noonan, TD, who has always automation which has provided FOLLOWING their recent fighting equipment, in addition :;trongly supported the factory, the orders which have AGM, the Fire Industry to the implementation ofagreed was present last week to witness safeguarded the jobs ofthe total Association of Ireland has National Standards for after the loading of a further employment. announl.ed several new sales maintenance and consignment for shipment to the Coupled with this consistent appointments to its executive inspection programmes. US. quality control is the right to use Council. The majority of the Since Wilo Pumps commenced the much-coveted seals of Alex Wadkin (Apex Fire established companies who are production in 1980, turnover approval from the recognised Prevention Co.) has been actively engaged in the Irish fire has steadily increased to a point official authorities, notjust as in elected to serve as Chairman for prevention and ancillary where the value of raw maerials the recent UL case for the US, the year ahead, replacing industries are members of the and services alone sourced in but also for the equivalent Vincent Carrigy (WaIter Kidde Fire Industry Association of Ireland amounts to £2 million. bodies in Britain, Germany, Ireland) who, having acted as Ireland, which was founded By 1985, total turnover will France, Ireland and several Chairman for the last two years, over 18 years ago. Further exceed £8 million with an annual other countries. did not seek re-election. information can be obtained wage bill for the 160 employees • The 20-watt pumps, which Frank Perkins (Champion from the FIAI's Honorary of£2 million. have proven so successful for Fire Defence) was elected Vice PRO, Hugh Feighan at Tel: The Wilo plant stands on its Bell & Gosset in the US Chairman and Kevin McCabe 3075511307517. own 4-acre site with present marketplace, have also paved iversdale Fire Defence) has buildings covering only 32,000 the way for a further en elected as Secretary of the sq. ft. Capital investment development, Wilo have already FIAr. The new PRO is Hugh Frigopol already exceeds£5 million with a shipped a number of5 watt units Feighan (Draeger Ireland) and further £2 million earmarkedfor to the same firm for examination Henry Wright (Action Fire Appoint new machinery to be installed and tests, prior to the placing of Security) will continue in the over the next three years. another large order for these position of Treasurer of the It is this emphasis on smaller models. Association. Fridge Spares Three new names have been Fridge Spares (Wholesale) Ud, elected and co-opted as Council one of the leading refrigeration Members - Loman Fagan wholesalers in Ireland, cen (Firestop Equipment); Vincent trally situated in Glasnevin Carrigy (WaIter Kidde) and Dublin, carry a large stocks of Vincent Fox (Chas Nolan & refrigeration plant and Co). ancillaries. Guy Edwards (Thomas Their latest acquisition is the Glover & Co), Edgar Frigopol range of semi Br 0 ads t 0 c k ( E ri n Fire hermetic condensing units and Extinguishers) and Vincent Fox compressors for which they are (Chas Nolan) have been chosen now sole distributors for the 32 to serve on the FIAI counties. The Frigopol, with its Disciplinary Committee for the unique separating hood made rrent year. from 0.2 mm chrome nickle our members of the Fire steel, separatesthe refrigerating • Members ofthe Institution ofEngineers ofIreland were recently the guestsof dustry Association of Ireland Wavin Ireland Ltd. at a golftournament in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath. Over partofthecompressor from the 100 golfers tookpartin the day's outingheldin honour ofthe institution's150th have been selected as delegates electrical port of the drive anniversary. At the presentation dinner in the Bloomfteld House Hotel were: to four important representa motor with a gas tight seal. Larry Carr, Marketing and Sales Director, Wavin; Robert Hayes, IEI tive bodies during the year President; Des Byrne, Managing Director, Wavin; Jim Hearne, County Thus, electrical problems are Engineer for Westmeath and overall winner of the tournament; and Paddy ahead. Guy Edwards will act as isolated from the refrigeration Hennigan, Engineer, Dublin Corporation. the FIAI Delegate to the Fire system. Condensing units Prevention Council; Liam E. range from YJ horse power to Keogh (Apex Fire Prevention 10 horse power. Compressor Co) is the Delegate to the range is from YJ hp to 40 hp. £5M US ORDER FOR WILO National Fire Safety Specifica In addition to the Frigopol tions Council; Henry Wright range, Fridge Spares are sole will represent the FIAI in distributors for Eire & UK for dealing with the Institution of the Glacial range of Fire Engineers and Frank evaporators andaircooled con Perkins is the delegate to the densors, distributors for Federation of Trade Associa L'Unite Herrnetique hermetic tion. compressors and condensing The Fire Industry Associa units, Flica expansion valves tion has as its main objective the and driers, EPC copperfittings, provision of fire protection and Yorkshire imperial copper fire prevention information and tubes, precision line clocks, service to the public. It aims to Ranco controls, Iscron ref promote within the fire industry rigerants, Imperial Eastman • Wilo Pumps Ltd. ofLimerick, the only Irish manufacturer ofcentralheating the very highest standards of hand tools and vacuum equip circulatingpumps, in itsftrst breakthroughinto the Americanmarket, has won a applied fire and safety ment. They are also one of the major export order which will be worth more than ISmoverthenextthreeyears. Mainisterfor Justice Michael Noonan, who recently visited the Limerickplant engineering, the supply of top main stockists for the Danfoss to see the ftrst consignment on its way, is picturedhere with Jean 0 'Sullivan of quality fire protection and fire range of controls. WiloPumps. Published by ARROW@TU Dublin, 1985 Irish H& JI News, June/July 1985 911 Building Services Engineering, Vol. 24 [1985], Iss. 7, Art. 1 ~ GUEST WRITER ~ Commissioning - Suggestions For a Better Way By PJ Doyle, Managing Director, HA Neill Ltd HERE is much and air conditioning dissatisfaction in plant it is hard to see T the industry with the how the divided poor quality of services responsibility caused by commissioning as carried having the electrical out and the resulting contractor responsible for poor performance from the controls can help the the building overall result. It may be environmental plant. better to have the This situation arises for controls in the electrical a number of reasons: contract if you have a (1). Poor organisation by bad mechanical the contractor; contractor who has no (2) No agreement interest or ability in between the client, commissioning the the consulting installation, but I do not engineer and the think it is the right contractor on the solution to the general exact plan and detail case. Such a contractor of commissioning; should not have been on (3) No competent staff the bid list in the first on the client side to place. take over the plant; Number (3) may work (4) No comprehensive in some instances and as commissioning a contractor I must say requirement set out in that I would accept this the original method if the specialist specification. In the firm is nominated. absence of precise 7 However, if he is not requirements nominated it is hardly contractors price for In the case of (1) approach I do not think, reasonable to impose a the minimum and try above, I would suggest however, that this method specialist contractor on to get by with this. that it is more proper to produces the best result the mechanical contractor In a part effort to allow the contractor to for the client. For heating and then leave the overcome the various arrange for the ventilation and air mechanical contractor problems being commissioning of the conditioning plants it is responsible for the encountered some plant items. He may or usually fairly easy to outcome. What happens Consulting Engineers are may not decide that the obtain the design output if the specialist does the writing requirements into supplier is the best in gpm, cfm Bc btu/hour job badly or is behind the specification which person to do the job. etc from the system (my programme or if in fact do not resolve the basic Either way, the contractor use of these units shows he never completes the problems and sometimes is ultimately responsible my age). Whether or not job? only compound the for the performance. I this will satisfy the In summary, I consider existing ones. think, as contractors, we environmental load in that the mechanical E:ltamples of these must ensure performance the building will depend contractor is best placed requirements are:- in accordance with the on whether or not the to decide who should (1) Commissioning of all requirements set out in original design was commission the plant and equipment the consulting engineers accurate and whether or individual items of plant, to be carried out by specification andl not the control system is the control system, and the equipment demonstrate that we modulating the available the overall system always supplier; have done so. We should energy around the provided an accurate (2) Controls to be be subject to any bUilding to meet the load and precise supplied and reasonable examination from time to time. commissioning installed by the in the disc~arge of this In other words, the specification has been electrical contractor; responsibility. satisfactory operation of laid down by the (3) Commissioning to be In the case of (2) the controls is such an consultant. carried out by named above, it is easy to see integral part of the However, if the client or specialist how some argument can overall performance of consulting engineer https://arrow.tudublin.ie/bsn/vol24/iss7/1commissioning firms. be madein favour of this the heating ventilating wants another party to DOI: 1010.21427/D7TQ4DIrish H& V News, JunelJuly 1985 12 et al.: Irish H & V News commission c~rtain items and plan for carrying or in fact the whole out the installation then they commissioning; should nominate them. (D) The contractor should Let me leave aside for allow for organising the moment who should a discussion group commission the system comprising of the APPLY and focus instead on how architect, builder, the commissioning might consulting engineers, for your be better carried out. I client and any consider that the way to specialist suppliers a better performance in and contractors he information -card. the future can be stated considers necessary, under a few simple At this discussion the headings. contractor should set (A) The contractor should out his method be totally responsible statement and plan for organising the for commissioning commissioning and and have this plan. deciding who modified if necessary commissions what. (If agreed by the client he is not competent and consulting , to do this, he should engineer It is free. not be on the tender If these !:iteps are taken list); then there will be an (B) The consulting agreed and understood engineers specification plan for the which is sent out with commissioning. the cost the tender documents of which has been should set out in propeTly allowed for detail commissioning before the section by section Le commissioning is started 1°'CARt111 hot water services. In the past. ((CU~ cold water services commissioning consisted "•• be a great etc. and item by item of at worst the foreman n0'i~: ~ur the exact lighting the boiler and is available visit to: commissioning that venting the radiators or help to organ the Engineer requires at best commissioning to be carried out. It engineers (usually good should set out what electricians with no instruments are to be technical or engineering used for taking base) "commissioning" measurements and '111"~~~!! the system to no plan or how thes~ method known or agreed 9th \nternat\~na\ E~ ~\r.con(l\t\on\ng measurements are to by anyone. Re1r\geratmg ~n tion with BATIMAT be recorded and It is time as an industry witnessed; that we dealt with this organised in conJuncmber 1985 (C) It should be a deficiency in our 1i-11 ...ove illes - FRANCE requirement set out in performance because if • porte de Versa the tender documents we do not. less desirable Parls- that the contractor solutions may be prepare a detailed imposed on the industry. . . method, statement ...... , •••••••••••returned to: _ French . coupon to be "DE EXHIBITIONS'II'Iam Court - NCH TR... _ ClanWI I consider that the FRE Marine House DUBLIN 2 - EmbaSSt~anwilliam Place__TeleX: 257'\'\ mechanical contractor is Tel.: l1) 680-878 , best placed to decide who should commission the Name Firm ___ individual items of plant, the AddresS . control system, and the . e' IMACARTE overall system always I wish to recelVrd_Request CL provided anaccurate and o WelcomedCaumentation o Ge!,etr~~ n~~ exhibits lmid-october) o A \Is .I atalogue 'd) precise commissioning , o The otticla cl lPostage pal speci1ication has beenlaid Price: 4,2 £ Ir . ding remittance. z down by the consultant. I enclose the correspon > z.. Published by ARROW@TU Dublin, 1985 , Enquiry Code No. 6. ,,.;1" H& /' /\""\'1, JundJuly 191/S 13 11 Building Services Engineering, Vol. 24 [1985], Iss. 7, Art. 1 Heat Pumps and Heat Recovery Equipment Heat Pumps - The Potential For Ireland By Robert E. Jacob,C. Eng; FIEI; FCIBSE; MASHRAE. HE savings achievable cheaper conventional boiler 3.5 to 1(afterall losses) ... 1.06p T both in running cost and in carries the peaks. Heat pump usingcurrent at fuel imports by the use of In this waythe capital 6.2p/KWh ... 1.77p; Dublin Gas heat pumps deseIVe more investment in the heat pump is 2.01 p/KWh at 75% eff.... 2.68p; recognition than it was kept to a minum and an Gas oil3.19P/KWh at 75% eff. generallyreceived in Ireland. optimum loadfactor achieved. ...4.25p; Light oil2.65p/KWhat In manyWest European The second important 75% eff.... 3.50p. countries heat pumps (using limitation is the comparatively Inan actual case of a small ground water as a heat source) lowworking temperature at institution recentlyinvestigated, are widely used. Many which heat is made available it was shown that the countries, recognising the by a heat pump. Approximately installation of a heat pump contribution which heat pumps 50° delivered bya heat pump would effect a reduction in make to the National economy will be sufficient to cater for the consumption of imported gas byreducing oil imports, full heating requirements of a oil from the present 284,000 litres subsidise the cost of such buildingin meanwinter to 50,000 litres. installations and actively conditions with outside The ElectricitySupply Board encourage their use byprivate temperature at 7°C, after would benefit byan increase in and public users. making allowance for casual revenue of approximately In Ireland, particularly gains from lightingand £26,000 per annum and the favourable conditions prevail. occupancy. institutionwould save over The enormous quantities of In such a case it can be £52,000 per annum. The capital heat contributed annuallyby shown that up to 80% of the cost was estimated to be relativelywarm rainfall annual heat demand of a approximately£ 100,000, constitute a hitherto neglected building can be supplied bya indicatinga pay-back period of natural resource. In manyareas heat pump sized to cater for undertwo years. inIreland where geological approximately60% of the Potential contribution of heat conditions are favourable heat estimated maximum heat pumps to the NationalEconomy pumps afford a means of demand. The existingboileror by increasing overall energyuse utilisingthis renewable boilers are retained as standby efficiency - It is sometimes resource. and to cater for extreme suggested that our natural gas Inthis regard, we are more conditions. resources should not be : favourably circumstanced than Cost of heat suppliedbyheat "squandered" byconversion many of our West European pumps-Incomparingrunning into electricityat an efficiency colleagues, but, the writer costs it is assumed that the of approximately40% and suggests, because of the more installation is serving a medium finallydelivered to the obvious and perhaps sized institution or industryin consumer at an efficiencyof superficiallynewsworthy which current would be about 30%. However, this is to qualities of such alternatives as purchased at the LT industrial grossly oversimplifythe bio-mass, windpower, solar maximum demand rate and problem. energy and tidal power, these that the additional units The theory of minimising have engaged the attention of consumed bythe heat pump conversion losses in transferring popular journalists and would incur only a marginal energyfrom one form to legislators. increase in the MD charge. another or movingit from place ! Limitations of heat pumps - The On this basis the cost of to place is quite sound but the fact must be recognised that the current would be realities of losses incurredby capital cost of heat pumps is approximately6.2P/KWH at the the consumer in distributing highbut it canbe amply dayrate and 3.7p/KWh at the and controlling energyin a justified bythe savings night rate. prime form are often achievable. Its economic The comparative useful underestimated byadvocates viabilitydepends upon its energycosts using other fuels of the de-centraliseduse of annual hours of use. Usually, are as published bythe HRS, prime fuels. these can be maximisedby April 1985 "Comparison of A heat pump operatingat a usingthe heat pump in a bi Energy Costs". co-efficient of performance of valent mode; that is, by Cost 01 heat as applied in 3.5 to 1 more than compensates allowing the heat pump to pence perKWh - Heat Pump for all the losses incurred in using current a t3.7P/KWh COP generatingand deliveringin https://arrow.tudublin.ie/bsn/vol24/iss7/1carrythe base loadwhile the DOI: 10.21427/D7TQ4D12 Irish H& V News, June/July 1985 14 et al.: Irish H & V News EnquiryPublishedCode by ARROW@TUNo. 7. Dublin, 1985 Irish H& V News, June/July 1985 1315 Building Services Engineering,, Vol. 24 [1985], Iss. 7, Art. 1 Enquiry Code No. 8. NEW HORIZONS IN ENERGY EFFICIENCY IHEAT PUMPS I • WIDE PRODUCTRANGE Utopia Split Air to Air Heat Pump • EX-STOCKDELIVERIES • AIR TO AIR Roof Top Air to Air Heat Pump • AIR TO WA TER • WATER TO WATER Split Air to Waste Heat Pump HITACHI TECHNOLOGY FOR LASTING QUALITY ~ L / Available in Northern Ireland from: "~,v Connswater Industrial Estate, East Bread Street, Belfast BT5 4PZ. Northern Ireland. ~ ~ Tel:53329/53320. Telex: 748136. / ""'_ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCIES LTD. ItvlMt8 of commer tal Irefll'laera'tion - Experience, highly developed production facilities and advan ced quality control methods ensure all the Oanfoss products the same high quality. - High quality means dependability, reliabi- lity and long life. ~ It pays to buy all con trols from same supplier I.e. simplified delivery and service. - Oanfoss controls not J.J.SA P only meet the market Unit 71 Cherry Orchard Industrial Estate demands of today, they Dublin 10 are designed to meet the Telephone: (01) 268111 Telex: 92219 jjss eim https://arrow.tudublin.ie/bsn/vol24/iss7/1demands of tomorrow. 34018 DOI: 10.21427/D7TQ4D 16 14 1ri"h H& J' \',oH'<. Junl'lJuly 1985 Enquiry Code No. 9. et al.: Irish H & V News Heat Pumps and Heat Recovery Equipment the high gradeform of and cooling can be values, from a well known electricitythe ~nergyit accomplished by(1) Actuating manufacturer. consumes. The final heat valves in the refrigerant lines so A commercial heat pump of balance is as follows: as to interchange the positions this size would cost about £3,500 Energyto gas fired power of heat exchanger constituting installed. In this case the heat station ... 100; Energyto the cooling coil and the heating pumps would payfor itself in consumer .. 30; Energy as coil or (2) byswitchingthe less than 14 months. appliedbyconsumer through paths of air or water that It should be notedthat if the heat pump 30 x 3.5 ... 105. conveyheat from source to comparisonwere made to 35 Conclusion - The facts coolingcoil andfrom sec gas oil and a boilerof 75% outlined in this short article are condenserto sink respectively. efficiencyand a price of 4p, per well recognised bymost of our The interest inheat pumps is KWH then 65164 KWHS would partners inWestern Europe due to the high co-efficient of cost £2,606.56. whose Ministries of Energyand peI1ormance. This shows that where the hea1 Power activelyencourage the The COP varieswith the pump can replace the use of use of heat pumps as a means outside temperature. In actual electrical energyused for of reducing fuel imports, systems the heatingCBP varies heatingthen the heat pump is a improving load factor on from 0.8: 1at -19OC to 3.6: 1at handsdownwinner. National grids and using energy 15.6DC outside temperature. At It also shows that the high cost to best advantage. winter outside design inIreland of electricityis unfavourable to of -1.1DC the COP is nearly 1.3. the heat pump even thoughit Usingvarious outside gives out inheat more than temperature and the COPs at twice the amount of electricity that temperature, savings can consumed. be calculated for a heating Nevertheless, the heat pump Heat season *(based on the year has further advantages such as: 1967 whichwas close to the (1) No chimneys or flues average for a 10 yearperiod). required; (2) No storage vessels Pwnps We selected a 15 KW heating required; (3) No pollution size air to airunit to use as an created; (4) Clean odourless An example with conservative COP energysource; and (5) Can also Outside Air Temp. HeatingOutput Power Input COP Hours Overview 15.5C-12.8 Dgs C 17KW 6 2.9 53 12.2C-1O Degs C 16KW 5.6 2.8 440 By Tom Fleming, M.D., 9.4C-7.2 Dgs C 14.6 KW 5.4 2.7 1231 REconair Ltd. 6.6C-4.4 Dgs C 13.9 KW 5.2 2.6 1422 3.9C-1.6 Dgs C 12.8KW 5 2.56 323 The first heat pump was l.lC-l.l Dgs C 11.9 KW 4.9 2.42 300 conceived byLordVietim in 2, but was first made in 1925, Scotland. Since that time, and Cost if Electric Resistive Heat particularlyin the last 10 years, HRS KW XWHS PRICE IN PENCE XWHS manyhundreds of thousands of all types and sizes have been 53 X 17 901 X 10 £90.10 installed. In the last few years, 449 X 16 7184 X 10 = £718.04 single packaged or split 1231 X 14.6 17972.6 X 10 £1797.26 packaged units have become 1422 X 13.8 = 19.623.6 X 10 = £1962.36 popular. Because air is a 823 X 12.8 10534.4 X 10 £1053.44 universallyavailable heat 300 X 11.9 = 3570 X 10 £357.00 source, the air andthe air-to 65764.16 KWHS £5978.55 water types are the most common. Cost WhenHeat Pump Used: From the refrigeration standpoint a heat pump is Hours Power Input KW PowerUsed Prtcein Amount PenceKWH similar to a conventional 53 6 318 10 £31.80 refrigeration system, its basic 449 5.6 251'4.4 10 £251.44 circuit beingverylike a 1231 5.4 6647.4 10 £664.74 domestic refrigerator the inside 1422 5.2 7394.4 10 £739.44 of which produces cold and the 823 5 4115 10 £411.50 outside at the back produces 300 4.9 1470 10 £147.00 heat. Inthe heat pump, the roles 24705 KW £2245.92. of inside cold producingand Cost 0165164 KW HS resistive heating £5,380.21. outside heat producing Cost 0165164 KW HS heat pump heating £2,245.92 functions can be reversed. Savings £3.134.29 Changeover between heating Irish H& JI News,June/July 1985 15 Published by ARROW@TU Dublin, 1985 17 D Building Services Engineering, Vol. 24 [1985], Iss. 7, Art. 1 Heat Pumps and Heat Recovery Equipment provide summer coolingat the • turn of a switch. The heat pump is here to stay but is awaitingfavourable energyprices to enable it to be more widelyused than it is at present. * Heatingseason is anytime the temperature falls below the figures indicated. Details from Reconair Ltd., Unit 4ACoolock Industrial Estate, Dublin 5. Tel: 470611. Telex 31350. (Enquiry Code No. 122). NewYork Reverse CycleHeat • The new York packaged combination ofair to water heat pump and air-cooled water chiller which has been designed to ensure maximum efficiency in small to medium commercial, retail and office buildings Pump where both capital and operating costs are ofprime importance. Detailsfrom Glowtherm. York are launchingwhat is specificallydeveloped to meet combination air-to-water heat thought to be the first all-British British and European pump and air-cooled water designed reverse cycle heat operational requirements. This chiller will heat or cool a pumpwhich hasbeen newEconopak packaged buildingas required. DAIKIN NEW Sky Air Heat Pump Air Conditioners keep you in wall-to-wall comfort year 'round. They make the most of space... beautifUlly..• save energy, and are easy to operate. FHYC Series Ceiling Mounted Cassette Type Indoor Unit TWO-Way Symmetrical Air Distribution for Uniform Comfort - Available ex-stock from- 25 Cook.stown Ind. Est., Tallaght, Co. Dublin, Ireland. coolai~ Tel.: (01)511244/511540 Telex: 31689 COOL El ..J Mallow Road, Cork, Ireland. AIR CONDITIONINGIAIR DISTRIBUTION Tel.: (021)503630, Telex: 26152 https://arrow.tudublin.ie/bsn/vol24/iss7/1 Enquiry Code No. 10. DOI: 10.21427/D7TQ4D16 Irish H& V News, June/July 1985 18 et al.: Irish H & V News Heat Pumps and Heat Recovery Equipment It has been designed as a accurate temperature control. The Econopak can be value for money system to The system has been designed installed at ground or roof level ensure maximum efficiencyin to heat in one mode and cool in and the incorporation of small to medium commercial, the other and the changeover centrifugal fans make the retail and office buildings between these operating modes addition of sound attenuators where both capital and is instant and controlled and duct work possible where operating costs are of prime automaticallybyremote necessary. importance. sensors or can be manually The smallest unit, the AWHC Econopak incorporates selected. 25, measures 2800 mmlong x sophisticated solid state Designed for two-pipe water 1680 mmwide x 1330 mm high controls and there are three systems, this is a low energy The larger 40 and 55 size units units available. the AWHC 25, 40 heating and cooling package measure 3100 mm long x 2170 and 55, having a nominal operatingwith one heat mmwide x 1588 mm high. heating and cooling capacity exchanger. Byincorporating a Details from Glowtherm Ltd., range of 70 to 150 kW. Unlike sloping ambient coil, York have 194 Whitehall Road, Terenure, most conventional units on the been able to manufacture a Dublin 12. Tel: 513887/522172. market todaythis ystem is very compact unit which is Telex 30841. controlled on the leaving, ideal for installationwhere (Enquiry Code No. 121). rather than the return water side plant room space is at a thus ensuringexceptionally premium. Danfoss OCrQ, ,I, 90 -0- 'I' Controls 80 The Danfoss control series ECT ± . 70 5000 distinguishes itself by 60 being able to operate perfectly together with radiator 50 thermostats. This important 8= \IKf(,0 characteristic has been 1) 30 achieved bybuilding a k;r oc, A. B 20 -r---,---.-----r-"'--r--"--:;~1."'-U' • monitoring function into the -30 -20 -10 10 ~,1. °C ECT 5000 series room panels. -5/,\0' ~ .... The importance of monitoring kf(, heating systems in which radiator thermostats are, or are FIG. 1 Automatic adjustment of heat curve to be, installedwarrants a more using Tmin. and Tmax. functions. detailed function description. There are actuallytwo functions .nvolved, connected to the detail and will therefore only be room sensor placed in a same room sensor and built into referred to for the sake of clarity. reference room andthe flow all room panels inthe ECT 5000 As previously mentioned, the temperature being controlled series, see Figure 1. central control of flow depending on the heat One function (Tmax.) is used temperature in accordance requirement of that room. duringheating periods, when it with outdoor temperature gives The disadvantage with acts as a dynamic adjustment the possibilityof reducing heat reference control is that the of the weather compensation loss for pipes and boiler, where heat supplement from sunshine. heat curve, dependent on the burner control or shunt electrical appliances, etc.. will heat demanded from the regulation with boiler reset cause heat supplyto be cut off heating system. The other control is involved. also in other rooms where no function (Tmin.) is used during Since the heat requirement of supplementaryheat exists. Only night setback periods and rooms is different, partly with radiator thermostats doesit causes total heat supply cutoff because of a difference in become possible to fulfil the in order to make night setback desiredroom temperatures and demand for the control of more effective. partlyas a result of free heat, individualroom temperature If the room temperature falls central control based solely on within narrowlimits. to the set value, 16 degs C fpr outdoor temperature is The central control example, the heating system is inadequate; the central control compensation for loadin the cut in and maintained at a should also be capable of rooms must not therefore have temperature suitable for the reacting to variations in the the character of room lower heat requirement. This load on the rooms. temperature regulation; it must function, also known as the Up to nowthis function has onlylimit the flow temperature. 'night thermostat', has been designed as a so-called This limitation must be such previouslybeen descnbed in reference control. i.e. with a .that it ensures the highest Irish H& V News, JunelJuly 1985 17 Published by ARROW@TU Dublin, 1985 19 Building Services Engineering, Vol. 24 [1985], Iss. 7, Art. 1 ••••••••••• Heat Pumps and Heat Recovery Equipment possible reduction of flow temperature - without conflictingwith the room temperature regulation. Since experience shows that '/, ~ ,I/ the mainpart of allheating -0- /1' systems is over-dimensioned, a 100 heat curve set inaccordance with a determining outdoorwill normallyresult in higherflow temperatures for byfar the most 50 of the heating season. The over-dimensioningis necessaryto allowthe heating ) system to meet heating tmin t mal °C demandsin periods of max. I wind loadand lowoutdoor i. ;I t'...I temperatures. Figure 2: Relation between authority of Tmax/Tmin With a perfect room sensor and authorityof radiator thermostats: function, it thus becomes possible to significantlydrop the weather compensator curve If ,1/ ) ;0; for long periods. rQ°c I B/~ To achieve perfect balance I between energy savingand com1ort. the function must meet 50 the following requirements: • Control authoritygiving a compensation of approx. 10 20%; I I @ 0 24 6 12 18 • Constant authority on I changes of heat curve slope; c • Must not override radiator 0° I I thermostats in the room in . __ . . --'-- ._-. which the sensor is installed; 20 • Active onlywith overtemperature. The Tmca:.function inthe ECI I I @ S')OO meets all these requirements Figure 2showsthe relationship between the influence of the radiator tpermostg1s (dotted line) and outdoor temperature and flow temperature is below 20°C, the Tmax. func:tion (full line) on temperature. weather compensator ECT heat output from the radiators. (2) Manual adjustment of the S002/S006/S008regulatesthe It can be seen that on a heat curve bythe user. flow temperature in variation in room temperature (re 1) Tmax. must be set approx. accordance with a heat curve of approx. 1.SoC the radiator 2°C belowthe normal room based ondetermining thermostat regulates the heat temperature (radiator temperatures. output from the radiator thermostat setting). When the Resume - Tmin. and Tmax. between 0 and 100%, whereas radiator thermostat is shut. the functions built into ECT SOOO the Tmax. function in the given flow temperature will be series room panels give simple conditions needs a variation of reduced byapprox. lS-20% in and effective room sensor approx. 6.SoC (slightlyless in relation to the nominalvalue. functions that work together practice since the heat output (re 2) Tmax. must be set at the perfectlywith radiator stops when room temperature normal temperature level and thermostats. becomes higher than 20OC). will onlyinfluence the flow The functions especially The Tmax. function is therefore temperature afterthe radiator distinguish themselves bybeing not suitable for properroom thermostats are closed. simple to set - onlymax. and temperature regulation - this Figure 3 shows a typical min. room temperature must be must be lefl to the radiator temperature sequence inwhich set - the remaining parameters thermostats. the Tmax. setting lies being incorporated in the Setting of Tmax. - With the approximately2°C below the control. setting of Tmax. it is necessary radiator thermostat setting. The Details from JJ Sampson Ltd., to distinguish between two shaded area represents the 71 Cherry OrchardIndustrial situations: reduce pipe loss when using the Estate, Dublin 10. Tel: 268111. (1) Heat curve set in Tmax. function. Telex 92219. accordance with a determining As longas the room (Enquiry Code No. 123). https://arrow.tudublin.ie/bsn/vol24/iss7/118 Irish H& V News, June/July 1985 DOI: 10.21427/D7TQ4D 20 et al.: Irish H & V News • ECONOPAK AWHC 25-40-55 Heat Pump Chiller Enquiry Code No. 11., 'rish H& V News, JunelJuly 1985 19 Published by ARROW@TU Dublin, 1985 21 . Building Services Engineering, Vol. 24 [1985], Iss. 7, Art. 1 ••••••••••• Heat Pumps and Heat Recovery Equipment HeatRecovery Plant Hitachi from Walker Air Warm WasteWater from considerable savings on 5/6Profile Building Plant and Industrial heating costs and depending processes is normallydiscarded on the low-grade heat source The market in Europe for large and the low-grade heat lost with can replace the function of a 'airto waterheat pumps' has it. However, the Carrier heat boiler. not been growing at anything machine can recover this There are 17 sizes available like the rate it should. This has valuable source of low cost with heating capacities 50 to been one of the main energy and convert it for use in 1050 Kw Output, distributed by reasons for holdingback the heatingwater to a temperature Walker Air Conditioning in introduction of the screw compressor series of heat of 40 degrees - 70 degrees C. Ireland, Scotland and N.E. pumps manufactured by The co-efficients of England. Hitachi Ltd. However, the many performance achieved bythe For further information advantages of usingthe screw heat machine are extremely contact Michael Buckley, highand range from 2.30 to 6.0 Walker Air Conditioning Ltd., compressor, which is now so subject to the water Dublin Industrial Estate, Finglas well proven in the UK for temperatures involved. Road, Dublin 11. Tel: Dublin cooling only machines, has been instrumental in Hitachi's Installation of a Carrier heat 300844. decision to introduce their full machine can result in (Enquiry Code No 125). established range of heat pumps to the marketplace. So far large rotary Versatility from Daikin compressors such as screw or centrifugal have not been able For home air conditioning, decoration panel, listed below, to handle the high compression Daikin makes two varieties of is available in ivorywhite or ratios of the heat pump. Large heat pump split systems; paired coffee brown to accent any heat pumps have needed a .E:ms for single rooms, and decor. This decoration panel positive displacement machine ..1ulti-systems for up to three protrudes only 70mm when the like the reciprocating rooms. Whatever your lifestyle, unit is installed in the ceiling. compressor. The reciprocating whateveryou do at home, do it The FHY Series is an extremely compressor, with its attendant in comfort year round with slim unit; the FHY3LBE model, for high friction horse power, gas Daikin. example, is only 198mm high superheating, low swept Heat pumps can heat the and nestles unobstrusively on volume characteristics has room byreversing the the ceiling. The ceiling produced acceptable cdp's but refrigeration circuit: They suspended design allows more not necessarilythe highest extract heat from the air effective use of floor space, and possible. Additionally, the larg outdoors and conveyit to the circulates the air efficiently. number of moving parts room. The result is a high energy The warm air shower (FHY3 (especially compressor valve efficiencyratio. 5LBE) circulates warm air gear) have not given the high These quiet compact, and directlybelow the unit, a spot degree of reliability required efficient systems are available missed byconventional air underthe widely-varying with marble silverwall conditioners. The SkyAir FHY operating conditions of a heat mounted or walnut floor Series comes in six models for pump/heat recovery mounted indoor units. Their trim your indoor comfort. application. lines harmonize with any All controls are centralised on Hitachi's 5/6 Profile was interior decor. Outdoor units a trim remote controller. Only originally developed with this in contain a pwoerful newrotary 19mm thick, it projects a mere mind. High compression ratios compressor that saves energy. 6mm from the wall when are achievable at extremely Dry-keep and sleep circuits irnbedded. Controls are labeled lowpower consumption. This add that extra Daikin comfort. with modern pictograms for fact is nowwell established in On the commercial side easy operation, and inclupe the UK with over 100 there's the SkyAir Series of heat three different flow rates, Low, installations sold involving pump split system air Medium and High(except for about 250 compressors over conditioners. FHY3-5LBE) to satisfy all your 40hp. The FHYC3N-H model, for heating or cooling Furthermore, the lack of example, is a 400 mm-high requirements. conventional compressor valve cassette design that allows For details contact Coolair gear and fewer moving parts flexible, easyinstallation. The Ltd., 25 Cookstown Industrial (only 10% of reciprocating drain connection is 230mm Estate, Tallaght, Co. Dublin. Tel: compressors) reduce friction .xbove the cassette bottom for 511244/511540. Telex 31689. losses and increase reliability complete draining. An optional (Enquiry Code No. 124). byvery high margins. Finally, https://arrow.tudublin.ie/bsn/vol24/iss7/1 20 Irish H& JI News, June!July 1985 DOI: 10.21427/D7TQ4D 22 et al.: Irish H & V News Heat Pumps and Heat Recovery EqUipment additional features such as low running cost savings buildingor lowrise block of the noise and lowvibration are a substantial. Reliability is high late 60's or early 70's. Buildings designer's dream. and the problem of fan coil with high core zones properly To date. large heat pump control valve failure is a thing need a different treatment, such machines have tended to be of the past. Finally, because it is as Water/Water Heat Pumps, multi-functionbut the critical air to water there is no cooling again using Screw Compressors nature of this type of machine tower problems such as for all of the above reasons. with its critical refrigerant corrosion or water treatments Available inNorthernIreland charge requirement. leadingto etc. from: Environmental Agencies unstable operation means that It all seems the answer to a Ltd., Connswater Industrial it has to be treated as a hybrid. maiden's prayer, but is it too Estate, East Bread Street. Belfast While Hitachi produce this type. simple for our designers to BT5 4PZ. Tel: Belfast 53329/53320. it will be sometime before it is accept? The system is especially Telex 748136. int{oduced to Ireland. However. adaptable to the narrowplan what can be simpler than a system using Summer/Winter changeover from chilled to hot water with two pipe fan coils that do not require \ sophisticated flow control valves. just fan speed control. I Where the bUilding is zoned. you simplyuse a separate heat pump per zone to enable change over at different times to suit zones. Also, if water storage is possible. machines can be run off peakwith on peaktop up dUringdaytime avoiding maximum demand charges. Utopia Split Air to Air Heat Pump First costs are lowand J \ BELFAST ENVIRONMENTAL SUPPLY CO. LIMITED (0232) 53329 OUBUN DAN CHAMBERS LIMITED (0001) 720448 Enquiry Code No. 12. lrish H& V News, JunelJuly 1985 21 Published by ARROW@TU Dublin, 1985 23 Building Services Engineering, Vol. 24 [1985], Iss. 7, Art. 1 NI Coal Show THE NATIONAL Coal Board hosted the Northern Ireland Coal Show in the Conway Hotel near Belfast. Over 150 representatives of industry, commerce and the professions attended the Seminar which was chaired by Dr G Chambers, Chairman of the CBI (NI). The principal speaker was Mr MJ Edwards, Commercial Director of the NCB, who spoke the hopes and plans of the NCB for the NI Industrial Market. Mr DougWillis also ofthe NCB gave an illustrated talk on the various appliances and the options available to the coal user. Two case histories, one by Mr S Clarke of Wm Clarke & Sons Upperlands and one by Mr W Twinen • On the Babcock Power Stand were: J. S. Robinson TES Tndustrial (Treland) Ltd., J. Hodgen and W. J. of the Metal Box Co Ltd, were Thompson, ofBabcock Power Ltd. presented. Both speakers spoke glowingly ofthe savings they had made Service in the Farm Grove Hotel, Washington Development Corpora in their energy costs since the Craigavon. tion for the supply and installation of conversion from oil. Over 150 listened while a panel of heat metering equipment and controls A short paper on the Grants distinguished speakers presented for houses on two Tyne & Wear district available from Government was given papers on the various aspects ofenergy heating schemes. The principal claim of by Mr Breman of the Department of conservation. Speakers included D the system is that it allows the Economic Development. Anderson, Dept of Economic householder to have the' same control The Seminar was supported by some Development, D O'Callaghan (PA of the system as they would have of fifteen stands displaying coal firing and Consultants), L Duncombe (Thorn individual systems. handling equipment by the principal Electr~c), J Laurence (JEL Systems), J manufacturers in the field. Noble (NIFES). The Seminar was chaired by JM Paterson, pastchairman 'Low Cost of the Institute. NIES Head Energy'. Appointed pistrict Heating The new Chief Executive of the The Institute of Energy prseented a ". Northern Ireland Electricity Service is "Low Cost Energy" Seminar Bangor based company Mainmet has to be Mr Anthony Hadfield, who sponsored by the Energy Efficiency won a major contract from replaces Mr John Gaston who retires later in the year. Mr Hadfieldjoins the NIES from the Midlands Board ofthe CEGB where he was director ofengineering. Combined Heat & Power The Northern Ireland Branch of the Combined Heat & Power Association held a meeting in the City Hall Belfast to draw attention to the "far reaching benefits to Belfast ofCombined Heat& • Speakers at the Northern Treland Coal Show were, from left: M. J. Edwards, Commercial Director, Power." NCB; Dr G. Chambers, Chairman, CBT (NT); D. Willis, DevelopmentManager, NCB; E.Breman, Dept. Belfast has been chosen as one ofthe ofEconomic Dev.; and R. Twinen, Metal Box Ltd. https://arrow.tudublin.ie/bsn/vol24/iss7/122 Trish H& V News, JunelJul.v 1985 DOI: 10.21427/D7TQ4D 24 et al.: Irish H & V News three cities, which are to present to the Street, Belfast. The boilers were Government a feasability study on supplied by EMS Thermplant Ltd of CHP. Calor Birmingham and the manufacturing The meetmg was addressed by part of the installation was carried out Professor Crossland, Chairman of the Appointment by Wilson Mechanical Services of consortium who are preparing the Green Road, Belfast. study and Mr BiIl Orchard, ofOrchard Calor Gas in Northern Ireland & Partner consulting engineers. The announce that Roy Connolly has meeting was attended by City rejoined the company as operations CounciIlors, MPs, representatives of director responsible for the Strinex Syphon Housing Agencies Consulting production, distribution and shipping Engineers. activities. Hevac Distributors Ltd ofAbbeyPark, Bangor have introduced the Strinex heat syphon. The Syphon is an electricaIly controlled fan taking the Glen Expansion hot air from ceiling level and returning it Queens Boiler to floor level. Glen Dimplex Group, the Newry This new company - Hevac - is the based electrical appliance manufacturer, Inaugurated brainchild and under the control of have further expanded their activities Harry Pettis. with the purchase of the weIl-known Dr Rhodes Boyson, Minister of State, Morphy Richards Company. it is unveiled a plaque to mark the opening expected that this acquisition wiIl result of the new boiler house at Queens Heat & Power in increased employment. University Belfast. The last few months has seen the instaIlation of two coal Show fired fluidised back boilers complete Harvey Move with a pneumatic coal handling plant. Ifyou are interested in the weIl-known The guests at the opening were Heat & Power Equipment Exhibition Harvey Group Ltd (i.e. Harvey welcomed by the vice chanceIlor, Dr sponsored by the Institute ofEnergy in Heating) have moved into their new Froggart and included Mr Malcolm Northern Ireland and you would like a purpose-built offices and workshops at Edwards, Commercial Director of the stand you might be lucky to get one if 2-14 Dargan Crescent, Duncreece National Coal Board. you contact the show organiser Industrial Estate, Belfast. Phone: Consultants on the project were immediately. At the time of printing 781931. Toherwood and Boyd of East Broad there are a very smaIl number ofstands still available. The Exhibition which wiIl be held at Balmoral Show complexfrom the 11 th 15th November. Full details from Bill Caughry, telephone Newtownards 812577. Ayers Retires His many friends in Northern Ireland will want to wish a long and pleasant retirement to Ron Ayers who has retired as Director General of the HEVAC Association. • Pictured at the recent Institute ofEnergy/Energy Efficiency Office Seminar were from left: J. M. Paterson (past Chairman I ofE); J. S. Robinson (I.E.S. (Ireland) Ltd.); and J. Bell (GEC). Previously Systems Manager for Ireland for Satchwell Controls', Ron .....,.,""".",.",.,.""..rt'f'f'I~~1 Ayers left in 1975 to undertake the position of Director of HEVAC in London. During his period ofoffice the Association has grown to be accepted as the "trade organisation" for the heating and ventilating industry. Castles Move Geoff Castles, the NI agents for Thompson Cochrane Boilers, have moved to new premises at8 Governor's • Also at the Institute ofEnergy/Energy Efficiency Seminar werefromleft: S. Cole, H. Che"y (Energy Place, Carrickfergus, Co Antrim. Efficiency Officer) and C. Lees. Telephone number Carrick 68949. Irish H& V News, June/July 1985 23 Published by ARROW@TU Dublin, 1985 25 Building Services Engineering, Vol. 24 [1985], Iss. 7, Art. 1 Dudley Foster ong ago, in the land of community involvement". LCamelot King Arthur Leopardstown Race Nights created a round table of have raised £8,000 an evening young knights who met as equals and a Gala Charity night in fellowship and who carried out organised for Leixlip's Springfield good deeds throughout the Hotel raised over £4,000 from 150 community. The human 'people through sponsorships and emotional triangle formed by a charity auction. Such monies King Arthur. LadyGuinevere and have been used to buy a minibus Sir Lancelot broke up that for Stewarts Hospital in particular circle but the Camelot Palmerstown and to provide play dream was to be the inspirationfor equipment and assist building the symbol of a 20th century funds for both Stewarts and St. equivalent - the National Raphael's in Celbridge. The Association of Round Tables of Round Table stall at St. Raphael's Great Britain and Ireland. annual fete took in over £ 1,000 in The Association was established four hours on the last occasion! in Norwich in 1927 byan ex member of Rotary, Louis Marchesi. who saw a need for an Sales director of Marley Flooring organisation orientated towards and Plumbing Ltd., had never youngerpeople who would take heard of Round Table. Then, EASTER EGGS a moreparticipatory role in while on an IMI course he asked Equally satisfying for Dudley is community work. Thus Round some participants what their takingpart in the annual Easter Table (motto: "Adopt Adapt and circular badge represented, Egg collections which involve Approve") was formed as a non learnt a little about Round Table's handing out leaflets at politicaL non-sectarian, multi purpose and thought no more supermarkets askingpeople to racial organisation for 18-40 year about it. But he was not to escape buy an Easter Egg for the less old men, with the principal that easily! Ivan Cosgrave, an fortunate. The response is always objectives of fellowship and accountant with the CPI Group, generous and often from those charity work within the was a Round Table member and who can ill afford it themselves. community - locally. nationally Dudley found himself buying The Lucan Table have to date and internationally. (Perhaps more and more race night and resisted the "easyways out" of because of LadyGuinevere and raffle tickets, attending meetings appealling to the egg Sir Lancelot Round Tables are and finally becoming a member manufacturers or asking for say strictly men-only, but a of the Lucan Round Table. Dudley £50 contributions from local complementary organisation, Foster was hooked. companies because the Ladies Circle, was also Round Tables hold two generation of individual established for women). meetings a month for ten months community action is seen as an of the year and everymember equally important aspect of the 53 TABLES undertakes to attend at least 60% project. or 12 meetings a year - if he is For the past two years Dudley Round Table first spread to awayand visits another Table's has represented the Area at Ireland in Belfast in 1933 and meeting that also qualifies. The National level ( on the day of there are now 53 Tables membership fee varies from interview he waspreparing to fly throughout the country. grouped Table to Table: Lucan for to Sheffield for a meeting!) and into three areas. The most example, currently has a £35 was therefore involved in the recently formed - early this year annual fee while another requests organisation of the 1984 WOCO - is in Wexford, and others are a standing order of £ lOa month in Conference held in the RDS, 'on the way' in Greystones and order to establish a hosting fund. Dublin. "I met so manypeople Ballincollig. Theywill join a Dudley firmly believes that "the from different countries that my fellowship of 1,263 existing Tables more you put in, the more you get Christmas card andpostage bill in Britain and Ireland and more out of it" and devotes about two is now enormous!", he than 100,000 members of similar nights a week to Round Table exclaimed, but he clearly enjoys organisations in over 60 countries activities. Asked which projects he the experience of international worldwide. These come together has found the most satisfying, he fellowship and anytime he is as WOCO, the World Council of immediately replies "both those overseas on business he makes a Young Men's Service Clubs. that raised the most moneyand point of looking up the local Eights years ago DudleyFoster, those that generated most • WOCO organisation. https://arrow.tudublin.ie/bsn/vol24/iss7/1 24 . Irish H& V News, June/July 1985 DOI: 10.21427/D7TQ4D 26 et al.: Irish H & V News Standards · ItAll Boils A trip last year to Down To Moneyl Malaysia/Singapore, for example, ended with a weekend stay in a member's home, whichprovided an By NiallV Torpey, NSAI appreciation of the country not to be had from an international hotel. A similar experience on a three-week trip to the 1982 TANDARDS for cookers, or options givenin a standard WOCO Conference in Cape for almost anything else implythat a purchaser has the Town, South Africa, encouraged Sfor that matter, involve a freedom and knowledge to him on his return to convert lot of discussion and argument choose between the options with his own hands - the between manufacturers, users and also to knowwhat the costs rage of his Celbridge home or specifiers with the general andbenefits are. o a guest bedroom and intentionthat agreement on the The next question of basic bathroom. This has since content of the standardwill be importance which must be become a truly international reached. It is almost always the answered is roughly as follows: room, the guest list including the case that in reaching "Is the standard beingsought to Royal Family of Lichtenstein agreement the manufacturers give the "rubberstamp" of dUring the 1984 Conference! or users will need to approval to the products in the But Round Table is for 18-40 compromise with an opposing marketplace, or is there a need year olds and he is now 40 so point of view. There is no rule as to pull the manufacturer(or What is he going to do after he is to the degree of compromising user) into producing better "kicked out" next year? WelL which maybe necessary, and in products (orusingexisting there's more than one "another the final analysis a "reluctant products in a betterway?). side of" to DudleyFoster and he acceptance" of a requirement After all that how didwe has at least two other interests maybe all that is achievable applythese ideas to the which he hopes to pursue. between the parties to a preparation of I.S. 258? First of alL he has seen the standard. When we startedwork on IS beneficial effect that music and This being so, we maysaythat 258 we lookedin detail at BS singing can have on learning a standard maybe for a 1252, which for historical and Capabilities. He still remembers manufacturer the technical commercial reasons from school days a boywith a condition for a sale of a product represented the most useful d stammerwho nevertheless whichhe can make at a profit to pattern of authoritative input. Id singperfectly. Also, over the himself. Likewise, a purchaser However, a lot of changes were ears he has seen how mentally mayalso see in a standard the necessarybefore IS 258 handicapped children can learn technical condition for a emerged, andit might be of far faster through the medium of purchase of a product which he interest to identifywhat music. He has already discussed can use and which he can afford questions arose before we were this with musician friends and the • to payfor. We can see then that ableto form our opinions on the future mayyet see him develop a lot of conditions must be content of the standard. some "learning through music" satisfied before the content of a The standard as it finally programmes, standard can be agreed but emerged is aimed primarilyat He also enjoys gardening, most of them boil down to the the manufacturers of cookers particularlyvegetables, a past cost implications of some andtheir reasonable need to time which is combined, through technical requirement, or in objectively assess and test their the help of a book entitled "Drink other words money! It is cookers for their heatingand Your Own Garden", with an important that those working cooking functions. interest inwine making, His best on or advising on a standard We looked in some detail at so far have been blackberry, should bearthis point firmly in the following problem areas: ( 1) elderberry and apple mind. Howshould solid fuel cookers (according to reports). Looking at a standard from be made? (2) Howlongshould No doubt his Christmas card another point of view, every theylast? (3) Howefficiently list will remain extensive and the requirement in a standard should cookers cook? and heat international guest room will shouldhave a cost implication, water? (4) How should cookers continue to be frequently that is to say, where a be installed andplumbed in? occupied - and not just because requirement is giventhere must (5) Howshould cookers be it currently holds nearly 20 be a way for the manufacturer tested for compliance with the gallons of wine in the making! to say "I can do that and my standard? (6) What kind of fuels costs are ... ". Inthe same way, are goingto be used in them? ~ Published by ARROW@TU Dublin, 1985 27 Building Services Engineering, Vol. 24 [1985], Iss. 7, Art. 1 These questions are answered ,manufacturer's anduser's point prevented from draughtingto to varying degrees in the ofview - boilers. the chimney, however. A warm standard as published I will A manufacturerin chimneywill assist to form a confine mysel1 to a few points of competition with others will good draughtwhich is discussion that went on to arrive naturallywant to be able to necessaryfor the efficient use of at what's inthe standard. First of advertise his cooker as having a anyof these appliances. A all, we agreedthat cookers desirablylargewater heating warm chimney also assists in should be tough, robust capacity, andfrom one point of the prevention of condensation appliances capable of a view a user will want this too. In on the flue liners of the chimney. service life of about 20 years. orderto provide this heating Condensation canhave severe And there of course was the capacity a manufacturerwill maligneffects if fuels are used rub. While it is easy enoughto normallysupply a large boiler which can, on chilling, form sayhowlongan appliance fitted to surround the fire in the acid compounds on the flue should last, it is verymuch more firebox. liners. difficult to devise a test method However, when the userwants Another major discussion to distinguish between an to heat the oven in the cooker point was (and is) the question obviouslyunsatisfactorylife of there will usuallybe a part of of fittingthem inthe position say 10 years and a satisfactory the boiler shielding the oven andplumbingthem in. It is not life of 20 years. In the event we from the fire, ie actingagainst possible inan article such as took the view that we should the need of the moment. Inthis this to cover the "do's and specifythe materials of situation a user mayfind that a don'ts" of this topic, but some manufacture, and a range of fuel that burns with a long information about the fitting of the commonly used ones are flame (egpeat) will be ideal for cookers is includedinthe permitted to beused, to a gettingheat from the firebox to "Notes to Users" inIS 258. We defined quality. the oven. On the otherhand, if also say a fewwords on It is in the nature of solid fuel heat is onlyrequired for the dwelling design, building cookers that both their boiler, a fuel with a short flame construction, chimney manufacture and their use will will normallybe more desirable construction, the adverse effects involve compromise on their so that as much as possible of ofwind, smokycombustion and heatingand cooking functions. the heat inthe fuel will get to cooker maintenance, fuels and Let us lookin some detail at just the water inthe boiler. their properties, and fuel one aspect of cookers from the Not all of the heat shouldbe handing and storage. Total Cove The number ofIIGCylinder Centres and GasAgents has beenincreased.We now provide a better-than-ever facility for convenient collection ofOXYGEN, ACETYLENE,ARGON, ARGOSHIELD, NITROGEN and ourcomprehensive range ofSPECIAL GASES - quality gases from Ireland's biggest gas supplier. CylinderCentres: Dublin - Bluebell. Cork - Little Island. Limerick - Dock Rd. Athlone - Industrial Estate. Kilkenny - Hebron Industrial Estate. Gas Agents: Dundalk. Arklow. Drogheda. Longford. https://arrow.tudublin.ie/bsn/vol24/iss7/1 Wexford. Waterford. Ballybofey. Sligo. Ballyhaunis. Galway. Ennis. Portlaoise. Castleisland. Cavan. DOI: 10.21427/D7TQ4D26 Enquiry Code 28No.1: et al.: Irish H & V News AT THE highly-successful Energy Management 5th Annual Conference earlier this year, a number of' interesting and informative papers were presented which Irish H & V News will run over the coming months. The first is that by Or Neil Fricker of the British Gas Midlands Research Station and concentrates on new developments for gas utilisation technology for industry. Gas Utilisation For Industry "The British Gas Corporation and with investigating fire and inertia, hence allowing plant to be spends just over 1% of its turn-over explosion hazards. MRS has switched on and off at will to suit 'on the activities of its Research and gained a world-wide reputa production requirements. They Development Division. Within this tion for high pressure gas exist as both direct and indirect Division, resources such as production processes which heating methods, and a significant specialised manpower and have been applied success feature of many of them is the facilities are applied to technical fully both in the UK and improvement in product quality roblems and opportunities abroad. It has also made an that can often accompany the enerated as a consequence of important contribution to energy savings they produce. British Gas' business activities. increasing the efficiency of "Recuperative burners - As the Many of these are of a current "in industrial gas utilisation name implies, this is simply a house" nature, but others are through the development of burner which incorporates a heat associated with the use of gas by improved burners, furnaces exchanger for air preheat. Over British Gas customers. and other heating plant, as 2000 recuperative burners have "There are two research stations well as in the fields of safety now been installed by the four within British Gas which specialise and control of gas fired plant. British Gas licensees. The last in the task of improving the use of "The main body of this paper twelve months have seen the gas by consumers: outlines some of the recent phasing out of the original MRS "(i) Watson House, at Fulham in developments to emerge from the design and its replacement by a South West London, is the Midlands Research Station in the more robust and easier to service British Gas Centre for field of gas utilisation technology burner based on a conical Research and Development in for industry. recuperator. the domestic, catering and "High temperature processes Air/gas ratio control- A spin-off commercial utilisation fields. High temperature processes,by from the recuperative burner work "This includes work their very nature, tend to run at has been the development of two relating to heating, energy lower than average thermal new methods of air/gas ratio conservation, cooking, hot efficiencies, and hence offer great control. Figure 1 illustrates how water supply, installation, scope for energy saving important it is to control excess air reliability engineering, burner technology. The lower efficiency is on high temperature furnaces, design and combustion, and a consequence of the need to where even modest amounts can related standards and codes transfer heat from combustion lead to rapid increases in wasted of practice. In addition, products to a heat sink at a high fuel. Two techniques have Watson House operates as a temperature. Inevitably, this emerged from MRS to improve this test house on behalf of the requires the combustion products situation, both of which can be British Standards Institution to exhaust from the process at an used with recuperators if required. and British Gas to ensure that even higher temperature causing The first is a pneumatic system natural gas appliances are relatively high flue losses. In based on the use of a double safe, reliable and efficient, addition, there tends to be a high diaphragm governor and the second and can be installed, operated standing loss from furnace walls, based on the use of thermistors. and serviced easily. Some of doors, openings etc, and "Compact regenerators the Watson House activities of traditional furnace designs take a Returning now to the subject of relevance to today's theme long time to reach operating recuperation, Figure 2 illustrates will be considered later in this temperature, contributing further one of the important limitations of paper. to energy losses in non-continuous recuperative burners. Each line "(ii) The Midlands Research production situations. represents the fuel saving achieved Station is located on a 10-acre "There are a number of for a given preheat at one flue gas site at Solihull, in the West techniques emerging from the temperature. Because of materials Midlands. It has a staff of 450 Midlands Research Station which limitations, recuperative burners and is concerned with improve fuel use on high are constrained to work below developing new processes temperature processes. These 600 0 C air temperatures even when for gas manufacture (SNG either seek to recover waste heat flue gases are available at 1,4000 C, Production), with extending from the flue gases by air or load and this in turn limits fuel savings. and improving the use of gas preheat, or to reduce gas However, this limitation has now in industry and commerce consumption by reducing thermal been removed through the 3. Irish H& V News, June/July 1985 27 Published by ARROW@TU Dublin, 1985 29 Building Services Engineering, Vol. 24 [1985], Iss. 7, Art. 1 development of compact reversing regenerations. "Gas-fired, rapid-heating of metals - Gas-fired, rapid heaters exploit the clean high temperature 11111 (A', 11 MJ111A1I1I4 '/, I till WA',lt 11 combustion products from a ',ou"( lnou" I',IIU', ltKUI"\ natural gas flame to promote direct convective heat to the stock, hence producing a very low-inertia heating system. This involves the '.IIU·l use of high velocity burners (jet impingement heating) and/or furnace/stock matchi ng to increase hot gas velocities. The L I I LI I --' ',11 I,ll JU III III 11 HI III III 1,1) ',1I lit) ~C1 IIKI advantages of a rapid heater over a ·I.A'I /)/ III 11 rH Y conventional furnace can be summarised as: Low thermal inertia; High heating rates leadi ng to: Reduced energy consumption; Better temperature control; Reduced scale/decar FIG. 1. Additional fuel wasted through poor control of excess air. burisation; Better working environment; and easier automa tion. "Midlands Research Station developing a ceramic version of furnace where it is used to sinter involvement with building this device, capable of running at diamond tipped drill bits under a prototype rapid heaters ended in process temperatures of 1,2500 C protective atmosphere. This unit 1976 when a 41j2 tonne/h unit was with tube efficiencies exceeding replaces a conventional gas installed at Sanderson Kayser's 50%. furnace and an induction heater, works in Sheffield. Start up from "Two field trials have recently and has proved capable of beating cold takes about 30 minutes, and demonstrated the effectiveness of both in terms of running costs, the unit has now been in this technology in industrial product quality and flexibility. continuous production use for applications. In a forging "Ceramic immersion tubes some eight years. Since that date, application, a small pigeon hole Another important development in licencees have installed over 200 furnace has replaced a slot forge the high temperature field is the gas-fi red heaters, the majority in furnace for the production of use of ceramic immersion tubes for the UK, but many overseas. automobile wheel'- braces. Gas melting and holding non-ferrous "Ceramic radiant tubes consumption was reduced by 50%. metals. The technique combines Single-ended recuperative radiant In addition, the heater is run off a the benefits of indirect heating with tubes have found wide application timer with automatic start each the high thermal efficiencies in industrial processes where day, and it produces a very light offered by the recuperative burner indirect heating is preferred. non-adhesive scale - both located just above metal level. An However, the metallic tubes important features to the aluminium holding bath based on currently in use are limited to consumer. this principle was developed jointly 0 process temperatures of 950 Cor "In a second field trial, a similar with the BNF metals technology, I less. For some years, the Midland tube has been incorporated into a centre and subsequently licenced. Research Station has been custom-built heat treatment A Department of Energy sponsored demonstration project at Wolverhampton Diecasting using this furnace showed a 1I.00·C dramatic 80% fuel saving 60 compared to the companies existing furnace. Metal loss is said 50 to be minimal. 'V"'(--__ TARGET 0 "Steam replacement - Although . PERFORMANCE 40 d low temperature processes are, in z > BOO·C ~ general; more efficient than the 0 200 /.00 600 BOO. 1000 1200 1400 using steam to heat liquids. AIR PIlHIEAT TEMPERATURE. ·C Although boiler efficiency may be high, the result of part load operation. transmission and other FIG. 2. Fuel savings through air preheat. losses is to reduce system efficiency to about 40% or less. https://arrow.tudublin.ie/bsn/vol24/iss7/1 DOI: 10.21427/D7TQ4D28 1r; __------f\ PHYSICAL PART LOADING 3-20% (141 78·5 67·5 OPERATIONAL PART FLUE LOSS RADIATION 59· 5 LOADING 2- 28% (121 15-40% 1-6% (1-51 (201 TO PUMPS BLOWDOWN 57- 5 1-9% (31 LOSSES DISTRIBUTION 9-16% (121 50·5 OUTPUT TO 47·5 EFFICIENCY DO WORK FUEL HEAT 21-71% (481 INPUT CONDENSATE HEAT RECOVERY 98 FIG. 3. Sankey diagram for steam systems. "Vat and tank heating - Some tube are used to preheatfeed water this report serves to illustrate the years ago, MRS developed a direct in a tower. Heating efficiencies importance British Gas attaches to fired small-bore immersion tube to exceeding 90% on a gross basis its energy conservation pro replace the steam tube for liquid have been achieved with water gramme and some of the ways in heating. The system is an example outlet temperatures of 87° C. The which Midlands Research Station of a general policy of improving major market for this technology is is working to support the efforts of fficiency by burning gas at the foreseen in industrial washing British Gas Regions to reduce oint where heat is required. The where large quantities of hot water wastage of our valuable gas technique pushes up the heating are required and a joint resources. efficiency to over 80%. Early development agreement has been "It is also important to recognise development took place in the reached with a manufacturer. the tremendous amount. of co factory of a manufacturer of Latex "The technology has also been operation that takes place between gloves. Subsequent efforts were used by immersion tube licencees British Gas and the private sector directed at the Scottish Distillery to produce a new design of water equipment manufacturing industry Industry. This stimulating start has heater and field tests have been who take up MRS developments. led to recent diversification of this undertaken to direct-fire a "The gas industry in Britain has technique into other areas such as calorifier previously heated by high gone through two busy decades of oil reclamation tanks. One such pressure hot water. Two points conversion from a coal to an oil tank was originally fired by some emerged from this latter work. based industry and then to natural rather delapidated atmospheric Firstly there was a 25% fuel saving gas. The developments discussed burners. When these were replaced by direct firing although the here are an illustration of British by a small bore immersion tube, original boiler system was well Gas determination to continue this not only was the appearance of the maintained and efficient. process of innovation in the field of installation improved, but the Secondly, it was found possible to industrial gas utilisation." company realised a 48% fuel saving install a smaller thermal capacityof giVing a 1.7 year payback on the the calorifier. The question of installation. installed capacity can have a "Water heating - Further significant effect on both capital development stemming from the costs and seasonal efficiencies immersion tube concept has been when generating hot water. a direct-fired water heater. The "Conclusions - The new gas exhaust gases from an immersion utilisation technology described in Irish H& V News, June/July 1985 29 Published by ARROW@TU Dublin, 1985 31 Building Services Engineering, Vol. 24 [1985], Iss. 7, Art. 1 MEBSCA/CIBS Westport Conference This year's MEBSCA Westport course, that many failed to members, it is Eamonn's Conference, which was record a score. efforts which bring it all organised as a joint fund In the circumstances, together. raising effort in conjunction Eamonn McGrattan's 37 pts That said, they key with the CIBS towards the was hard-earned and fully ingredient in the success of the • Dick McElligott andMervyn Reid. anticipated costs of hosting the deserved the first place honour Westport Weekend is that it is European ASHRAE '86 in the overall competition. It an all-industry occasion with meeting next year, proved to be goes without saying that every participant making his even more successful than last Eamonn's victory was invidiaul contribution. year. Not surprisingly, the extremely popular. Forever Whether by the way of attendance was much larger modest, it would embarrass sponsorship, prize donations, with the level ofsponsorship him to labour the point too excessive bidding at the new also much greater. much but it would be remiss famous auction or even simply Principal hosts over the not to state that, for all the being present, everyone plays a weekend were Thermplant, sterling contributions of the role. Coolair, Reconair, BSS other organising committee However, no one will object (Ireland), Trane Air Conditioning and Redbro but there were innumerable "hole" sponsors and other supporters • John FitzGerald and Matt (see main pic.) who, between Gallagher. them, made the weekend so enjoyable for the many participants. Of course there was a serious element to the proceedings but, in the main, the emphasis was on leisure - especially the golf - with over 80% of those present playing on both the • Gerry Tobin, Noel McKeown, Gerry Baker, and • Eamon McGrattlln. John Lavel/e. Friday and Saturday. Unlike last year, the weather was very kind though some of the scoring for the main • Michael Curley and Eamonn competition would suggest Main Competition Result O'Brien. otherwise. Could it be that, Over-All Winners: 3rd: Donaugh Murphy, 33 pts. despite the conditions and the Eamonn McGrattan, 37 pts. Class HI near-perfect greens, too many Class I Winner: George Carlton, 35 pts. were suffering from the after Winner: Sam McGregory, 33 pts. 2nd: Matt McKeon, 30 pts. effects of John Hoey's limitless 2nd: Frank Benson, 33 pts. 3rd: victor Madigan, 30 pts. hospitality on Friday night? 3rd: Michael Morrissey, 33 pts. Back Nine The simple answer no. If Class H Winner: Gerry Baker, 18 pts. anything, a relaxing night the Winner: John Wilson, 35 pts. Front Nine evening before was perhaps the 2nd: Christy Cooke, 35 pts. Winner: Hugh Byrne, 20 pts. best preparation one could have had. Westport is a very Nearest the 9th in one shot: H ugh Byrne, Birdie (33% "). difficult course to play with the Nearest the 18th in three shot: Dennis Browne, Eagle (12"). back nine especially proving Best Net on the Par-Threes: Derek Felming, I1 Strofight 12. exceedingly tough. it was in McElligott and George this, the latter halfof the • Dave Egan, Brian Conroy, DonaghMurphy. • Cormac Walshe, Gerry Baker and Paddy • Gerry Ross, Paddy Clonan and Oliver Reddy. Clonan. https://arrow.tudublin.ie/bsn/vol24/iss7/130 Irish H& V News, June/July 1985 DOI: 10.21427/D7TQ4D 32 et al.: Irish H & V News if we single out two other individuals - Paddy Clonan and Matt Gallagher. Paddy's rolt' as auctioner set a prel:edent last yea\' which even he himself must have found difficult to follow. But follow it he did, badgering and cadjoling those present to dig deep into • Ray El/iott, Tom Emerson, Don Lavhaff. • Kevin McAdoo, Eamonn Mol/oy, John Ennis and their pockets. His contribution Peter Connol/y. in this respect is invaluable. And so to Matt Gallagher, While H & V News organised some ofthe photographs (with the help of Gerry Ross's camera), the bulk ofthe pics reproduced here were taken by Matt. We are especially indebted to him for the clever • Michae/ O'Doherty, Paddy Rogan, Eoin Kenny, manner in which a very high Senior Vice-President, CIBSE. proportion of those present • John Hoey, John Low/or, Pat Dunphy and Tom F/eming. were captured on film. Hence the decision to limit the text and the reproduction ofso many photographs. There are literally hundreds incidents and anecdoates one could relate concerning the weekend but space limitations prevent us from doing so. If you were not present at • Tim Harrington, Tom Lynskey, John Sweetman and Frank • Derek Fleming, John Wi/son, Ray Harper and Westport you missed out an Law/or. Sam McGregor. exceptional few days. Don't miss next year's event. • Lorry Maginn and Garvin Evans. • Paddy De/aney and Tom ScoN. • Eamon McGrattan, Dick McEl/igott, • Bob Col/im, Eddie Egan President MEBSCA. and Denis Browne. • Eamonn WEEKEND HOSTS: Browne, Denis Browne, Eamonn Thermplant; Coolair; Reconair Group; BBS (Ireland) Ltd; Monahan, and Trane Air conditioning; Redbro Ltd. Ronnie O'Connor. GOLF HOLE SPONSORS: Hevac Ltd; Brown Boveri (lrl) Ltd; Irish Industrial Gases Itd; Master Air co. Ltd; Runtalrad Ltd; J. J. Sampson & Son Ltd; P. J. Matthews & Co. Ltd; Euro Pumps (Irl) Ltd; • Brendan Stock, BSS (Ireland) Ltd; Funheat Ltd; Arcon Heating and John Brophy, Des Pluming Supplies Ltd; Irish Building Services Ltd; Buggy and Oliver Flowtherm Ltd; Dan Chambers Ltd; Coppercraft Ltd; Reddy. Pumpservices; Temperature Control Services Ltd; Holfeld Pumps. WEEKEND SUPPORTERS: GEC Distributors (Irl) Ltd; P. J. Matthews & Co. Ltd; Quadrant Engineers Ltd; Morris Insulations Ltd; SMC Air Conditioning Ltd; Precision Heating Equipment Ltd; R. R. Elliot Engineering Ltd; Walker Air Conditioning Ltd; Champion Fire Defence Services Ltd; Lister Tubes Ltd; Wilo Engineering Ltd; Crane Ltd; City Building Supplies Ltd; Heatovent Ltd. • Bill Aherne, Dermot Byrne, Brendan Carrol/, Tom F/eming, John Cuthbert and Noe/ Costel/o. Irish H& V News, June/Ju/y 1985 31 -Published by ARROW@TU Dublin, 1985 33 Building Services Engineering, Vol. 24 [1985], Iss. 7, Art. 1 New Products & Literature • conditions. Louvres are arranged in two rows, horizontally and vertically, and are Through individually adjustable the rounded off front edges Wall ensuring safety during setting operations for the Ventilators correct air discharge pattern. A RANGE of adjustable (Enquiry Code No 42). through-wall ventilators has been introduced by Willan Building Services. Called the "Passivent" Lead Pipe system, it consists of six basic models with a variety Repair of telescopic tube sections, and grille designs to suit • Wi/lan Building Services' Passivent range of telescopic, through-wall RECOGNISING THAT lead many domestic and ventilators. piping is something of a commercial applications. dying art, Robert Frazer Manufactured in durable low power consumption Unit Industrial have responded polystyrene, the Passivent and has a running cost of to market demands with the range can be fitted through less than 3p per hour. Heaters development and walls of from 205mm to (Enquiry Code No 41). production of Frazer Lead 400mm thickness and, once ENVIRO-AESTHETIC Loc Couplings. installed, requires no Engineering Ltd, (Enviras) These are specifically further finishing and a of Maidstone, announce the designed to make minimum of maintenance. introduction of the new AT connections between (Enquiry Code No 40) range of unit heaters. existing 71b or 111b lead Designed to provide pipe and polyethylene or effective heating for copper. industrial and commercial No special tools are Mini Cool premises of all types, the necessary and a positive AT range embraces models end ensures that COOL AND dehumified air, suitable for use with hot overtightening is with no installation or water, saturated steam or impossible. messy daily maintenance electric heating media. (Enquiry Code No 43). are just two of the many Unit heaters are one of benefits claimed for a new the most common forms of mobile air conditioner. terminal heating equipment Energy Called the Super Mini but great care has been Cool. SC600, it features air taken in the design of the Guide cooled condensing which AT range to provide not eliminates the need for just another product, but THE BUILDING Services frequently refilling the unit one which will combine Group of Danfoss have with water which is thought rugged long life efficiency introduced an 8-page to be one of the major with an unusually high energy efficiency guide, disadvantages of most standard of visual appeal. entitled "Danfoss Energy other types of mobile Casings and louvres for all Efficient Controls for Small airconditioners on the models in the range are Commercial Buildings", market. fabricated from stainless designed to identify areas The super mini cool is steel for both good looks of large energy use in expected to be the lowest and maintenance free commercial buildings and • The Super Mini Cool SC600. cost mobile airconditioner durability in even the most to offer energy efficient available this year. It has a arduous working solutions that can be easily STEAM PRODUCTION ~ AND HEATING EFFICIENCY .9~ START WITH A DO" ~ :Y:l:g:tl~D ON ANOot' ~ I~'I"~"".'·I··I • 212Coal,Boiler/GeneratorGas, Peat, Wood,versionsOil and-Wasteto suitHeatyourfiringspecification.systems. r I\10 • Steam outputs from 1,000 to 60,000 Ibs/hr. • Hot Water Generators giving 5 to 60 milliun BTU's/hr. https://arrow.tudublin.ie/bsn/vol24/iss7/1S.L COMBUSTION SERVIW LTD. LAHEROANE, BALLWOLANE, CDRr- Tel: 501411 boilermakers of international repute DOI: 10.21427/D7TQ4D158 CASTLEREAGH RD .. BELFAST BT5 5FT. Tel: Belfast 59282 34 Enquiry Code No. 14. '~_L U--"-I/ AI_..... Tu••/ Tu/" 'OR~ et al.: Irish H Enquiry& V NewsCode No. 15. p applied with short pay-back periods. Many companies find 0ITSn' SNIPS themselves in the "Profit Trap" where increased • Easier to use than con investment and turnover ventional metal snips. Cuts does not realise increased profits. Energy in three directions. Forged conservation offers one steel blades. Exclusive wire way of reducing fixed costs cutter. Comfortabte and in so doing contributes directly to profitability. curved handle. Keeps The Guide explains, in hands safely above detail, the co-relation between cut material. • room temperature control, time control, hot water temperature control, weather compensation and boiler sequence control. Available in right (Enquiry Code No 44). • Myson Velaire boilerhouse model fitted with optional insulated casing. and left cutting models. lectric fired boiler are now PROSNIP" from Pelersen Mfg. Co. available in a factory-fitted U.SA makers of world famous VISE-GRIP lools. oiler insulated casing. Radiator The boiler house models, available from 40,000 DIA-NORM UK, the 185,000 Btu/h, have easy-to Prosnip'" Hartlebury (Worcs) radiator use control boxes and supplier, has launched a feature the renowned Write for free literature to Petersen's Irish Associates:- new electric boiler radiator Velaire characteristics of which is specially designed fuel economy, quiet Pace Marketing Limited for use on wet central running, safety, simple 1. Belvedere Court. Dublin 1. Telephone. 749010. heating systems in flats and installation and cleanliness. low energy housing. The new casing, made The new appliance from Zintec with a high housed in a standard wall resistance to rust, has a hung radiator casing stoved hammer finish. made its public debut at (Enquiry Code No 47). the London HEVAC Show at Olympic (21-23 May, 1985). Key features of the "Dia Summer lec" are an adjustable water mperature thermostat and Cooling rogrammer to take vantage of off-peak THE COVEC series 2000 electricity. Horizontal-flo units have (Enquiry Code No 45). been designed and developed to provide complete and effective air movement and ventilation Insulated for both summer and winter System 'A' is the complete radiant healing use. service from Space-Ray. Casing From surveYing and deSigning a system There are 12 units in the to match your heating needs. to installa MYSON'S BASIC models of series with individual tion and maintenance. Utilizing Ceramic, the Velaire pressure jet oil- capacities ranging from HIgh Intensity Tube or Broad Area radiant heaters In any combination-ail designed to be the most radiant and fuel efficient all from the one manufacturer for complete Compatibility. So before you select a new Industrial healing system find out about Space-Ray System A-the tolal answer to your heat Ing ~roblems. Ring Michael Plnner today. ·:···········:: SPACE-RAY \. / Radiant Gas Heaters Available from: Heatequip LTD. • New multiblade duct dampers/rom Rega MetalProducts. (Enquiry Code No. D Euroh8ul Centre, Greenhllll Ro.d, 46). I T8118ght, Dublin 24. Te': 519711. Telex: 24718/24779 El. Enquiry Code No. 16. JJ - Published by ARROW@TU Dublin, 1985 35 Building Services Engineering, Vol. 24 [1985], Iss. 7, Art. 1 New Products & Literature J 2500 fP to 250,000 ft3 incorporating technology 70m3 to 7000m3 on a unrivalled even by the building volume basis. Japanese has been While with multiple units designed, developed, the size of the buildi ng is manufactured and unlimited. introduced by Huntleigh Suitable speed controls Technology Proxistor of and computer interface Cardiff. This capacitive units are available for switch has recently been sophisticated control and launched on the Irish energy management market by Huntleigh system interconnection is Technology's distributors so desired. here - Hall Pyke (Sales) (Enquiry Code No 48). Ltd of Walkinstown, Dublin. Commenting on the "Proxistor", Derek Wharton, Sweep Director Hall Pyke (Sales) said: "Just 18mm in Fans diameter and 80mm long, the M18 is probably the GEC-XPELAIR LTO has • The Covec Series 2000 horizontal-flo units. smallest capacitive switch launched a new range of saving energy in industrial comfortable temperature available in the world today "Whispair" ceiling sweep buildings at a fraction the for staff at floor level, the yet its performance is equal fans which, when used in cost of more complex top of the building has to to that of switches almost industrial and commercial devices such as electronic be heated disproportionately. twice its size." buildings, such as factories. energy management (Enquiry Code No 49). Available in AC and DC offices, shops, hotels and systems. units the M 18 capacitive restaurants, not only create The new fans trade on switch is stable over a wide cooling air movement in the simple principle that temperature range of summer but also help because hot air rises, the Proxistor 25C to + 85C. An additional reduce heating bills in air temperature in a Leads important feature of this winter. building is greater at high performance Proxistor The new "Whispair" are a ceiling than at floor level, A NEW miniature capacitive is its in.tegral LED which shows simple, inexpensive way of and therefore to mantain a proximity switch the switch state at a glance. (Enquiry Code No 50). fIOmth STILLORGAN, DUBLIN. TEL: (01) 887361 TLX: 24482 - HLFD El https://arrow.tudublin.ie/bsn/vol24/iss7/1 DOI: 10.21427/D7TQ4D34 /ri.•h H& V News. June/July /985 Enquiry Code No.3617. et al.: Irish H & V News Promise That Never Materialised HIS time last year, anticipated extra workload. So, unpleasant and also extremely engage in sales but, taking the following a rather what the marketplace experien difficult to successfully present situation, it should be Tstuttered start, the ced was an ever-decreasing implement. his primary obligation. With the domestic boiler market looked volume of work which was It would be nice to offer hope marketing support of the set for take-off and promised a expected to support more and and encouragement by distributors and NDG, no one potential for the last 12 months more people. predicting an upturn in demand else is better positioned than the which was going to prove the Not surprisingly, many came for the coming months but to do contractor to conduct the "hard saviour of many a concern. to grief. It's very easy in so would be naive. Despite the sell". However, without putting too hindsight to pass judgment on best efforts of distributors and No matter what the general fine a point on it, this promise those who got it wrong - and New Dublin Gas sales have not economic state of the country simply failed to materialise. possibly even identify those who reached projected levels. life still goes on; peoplecontinue Of course there were a are still getting it wrong - but Nonetheless, there has been to live and expect certain number ofsuccess stories but, in we all know it's not as simple as an appreciable - albeit rather standards ofcomfort. Hence the truth, these were few and far that. With large sums of money slow - reaction to the latest as yet undeveloped domestic between. The volume of invested people are faced with New Dublin Gas promotion. central heating market. The business necessary to sustain limited choices when it comes to This could be further expanded potential identified 12 months both the number of contractors situations like the present. You if distributors - and especially ago was accurate. Maybe what's and suppliers in this sector just either cut your losses (and risk contractors - made a more needed is a different plan of wasn't there. hurting others) or do your best concerted marketing and selling attack. Unfortunately, the number of to pear back and trade out ofthe effort. companies involved had problem. Okay, some may argue that it _ncreased because of the Either way the options are is not the contractor's role to Consider the Benefits of a Kingfisher! Potterton boilers have a model many bedroomed mansion. to suit every conceivable Kingfishers are fired on gas requirement, from their third which is still the most generation Netaheats to the economical heating fuel for the -- extensive choice of Kingfisher greater majority ofhomes. With units. For home owners gas central heating you get the considering the replacement of maximum convenience of a fuel an old floor standing central that is readily 'on tap' and also heating boiler, the choice total controllability to enable offered by Kingfisher gas-fired you to keep tight rein on your floor standing boilers is heating costs. comprehensive with outputs So that everyone can enjoy the from 20,000 to 220,000 Btu/h. benefits of gas central heating, here is a model capable of Potterton offer two Kingfisher eeting the heating and hot models which can be fired on ater requirements of virtually LPG for homes in areas where every home from the smallest there'are no gas mains. one bedroomed property to the A far cry from the old CLEANING UP THE MARKET The Maxitherm back boiler with its unique straight flue design (6 and 7 fin models) is a household name because people are fed up trying to clean other boilers. Now the Maxitherm has a brother called the Hotspot which, from its introduction has become very popular. The Hotspot has threestraightfins, although not as high an output as the larger Maxitherm. Still, it has proved very popular because of its lower prices. • Potterton Kingfisher RS50 boiler, output 30000 to 46000 BTU/Hr Both boilers can be used very efficiently without the front plate (Balanced Flue). Details/rom Heatequip. giving access to cleaning at any time, even when the fire is on. Recent tests show that the heat transfer surfaces of the boiler stay much fashioned boilers of yesterday Most models can be installed cleaner when the plate is removed. with their large cast iron beneath standard height Details from SME Sales Ltd., Ballymote, Co Sligo, (Tel: 071- w~ter~ays and overall bulk, working tops using special top KlOgflshe.rs .are extremely panels or even inside cupboards 83026). co~pact 10 s1Zt: and stylishl) provided there is adequate (Enquiry Code No. 102). desIgned to blend m unobtrusively ventilation. with today's kitchen settings. • Continued on next page Irish H& V News, June/July 1985 35 Published by ARROW@TU Dublin, 1985 37 • Building Services Engineering, Vol. 24 [1985], Iss. 7, Art. 1 • Continued from previous page. Eurohaul Centre, Greenhills 24779. Both room-sealed and Road, Tallaght, Co. Dublin (Enquiry Code No 100). conventional flue models are (Tel: 519711), Telex 24718- available. With room-sealed models the boiler operatesindependentlyof • the air in the room in which it is Glow installed. The balanced flue replaces the normal chimney Worm flue and fresh air is drawn in and fumes discharged via an outlet through an outside wall. Domestic The big advantage of room sealed Kingfisher boilers is their Gas flexibility ofsiting -theycan be installed in virtually any room Boilers provided that there is an outside Glow-Worm introduced some wall for the flue. exciting new products at the Ifthe old boiler to be replaced recent London HEVAC uses a conventional chimney . Exhibition. The 'Hideaway' flue it is usually a simple task for they claim is the only boiler that the installer to switch overtoone can fit, complete with casing, of the wide range of Kingfisher inside a standard metric kitchen conventional flue models. cupboard. The 'Hideaway' Kingfishers incorporate piezo comes with optional brown electric push button ignition for • front - cast iron heatexchanp. easy lighting and cast iron heat and the pump fitz inside exchangers for long life and casing. The boiler is 12" w ~ reliability. Easy to install and and has outputs of40,50,60 and service, they will offer years of 80,000 Btus/h. For use on trouble-free service. natural gas only. As with all Potterton boilers Also on display at HEVAC they are backed by the sort of was the new fuelsaver 75 after-sales service one would combination wall hung gas expect from such a leading name boiler. The Fuelsaver combina in gas central heating. • Potterton's Flamingo RS 20-30 wall-hung balanced flue boiler, from tion boiler is available as an Details from Heatequip Ltd., Heatequip. maxrlherrri For thebest I behaved central DOMESTIC heating systetn. BACK BOILER GfPOTTERTON EASIL Y KEPT CLEAN Thebestbehaved • Todays most Modern Back Boiler for Full Central boilers youcanbU)[ Heating and "Link-up" • Make Sure its a Maxitherm or Hotspot that your A vailable from: Builder or Plumber is Installing/or you. • Don't Accept Cheaper Copies with Less Fins. §{[B Heatequip LTD• Eurohaul Centre, Greenhills Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24. Tel: 519711. Telex: 24718/24779 El. EnqUiry Code No.19. https://arrow.tudublin.ie/bsn/vol24/iss7/1 Enquiry Code No. 18. DOI: 10.21427/D7TQ4D 38 et al.: Irish H & V News open flue unit - balanced flue Btus/Hr and on hot water it is combination boiler can be used Hi-Power and fanned flue versions are also 80,000 Btus/Hr. Giving a flow in an open vent system or in available. The max. heat output rate of1.65 gal/lOin at45 degress conjunction with a sealed Boiler on central heating is 60,000 K rise. The Fuelsaver system with pumped circulation using the built in pressure vessel. The boiler comes as a complete from unit including pump and all necessary connectors for fitting Interheat to the ch system mains services The Hi-Power boiler adopts a (water and electricity) and hot unique principle. The water to water supply system. Again the be heated is circulated through a boiler is for use on natural gas tube or tubes submerged in the only. firebed, at a carefully selected A lot of interest has been distance over the fire grate. The aroused by other Glow-Worm, heat is transmitted from the recently launched appliances, incandescent fuel by conduction. particularly the 'Elickerflame' Heat transfer rates are 17,000 live-fuel-effect fire and two new 20,000 Btu/hr per ft2 of boiler balanced flue convectors called surface, several times the the 'Glow-Worm Collection'. transfer rate for conventional The idea is that the heater wrap around boilers. reflects the mood ofthe room in This has made it possible to which it is installed. Thus the (a) reduce the boiler area; (b) bedroom heater has a gold, achieve a high water heating white and flower motif. The hall output from a comparatively heater is modelled on the hall small boiler and; (c) install a full telephone table. open fire refractory fire-back All ofthese appliances will be around the submerged tube to • The Glow-worm Capricorn 240 - which gives a generous output of available from Glow-Worm's greatly increase direct room 40,000 Btu-hrs, ample for most applications. All Glow-worm gas-fired Distributors in Ireland -C & F heating and achieve more boilers and heaters are marketed and distributed by C & F Ltd., Ltd. of Chapelizod Industrial complete combustion. Chapelizod Industrial Estate, Chapelizod, Dublin 20. Tel: Estate, Dublin 20 (Tel: 264650) It is interesting to note that the 2649171264898. in the near future. principle of submerged tubes (Enquiry Code o. 105). (Enquiry Code No 125). has, within recent years become • Continued on next page P• .I. MA'I''I'HfEW5 AND eGMPANV ..'M''I'fED Agents for 'DEAl. CAS BO'I.ERS We stock a full range of wall hung and floor standing gas boilers with both balanced and conventional flues for Towns and Natural Gas at competitive prices. P. J. Matthews & CO. Limited 134 LR. BAGGOT ST. TIPPERARY RD. BALLYTRUCKLE DUBLIN 2. LIMERICK WATERFORD , 764445/789055 061·43722 051·72171 J l-e-n-q-U-ir-Y-C-O-d-e-N-o-.2-·0-.------'r-;.\.-h-H-&-V-N-I'-1I-'s.-J-u-nl'-j-JU-'Y-/9-a-s--37 I Published by ARROW@TU Dublin, 1985 39 Building Services Engineering, Vol. 24 [1985], Iss. 7, Art. 1 • Continued from pre,ious page. respect of radiation. The prominent in connection with amount of heat radiated from a industrial Ouidised-bed boilers, hot body to a cold one is where phenomenal heat transfer proportional to the different of Increased Sales rates have also been reported. the fourth powers of the The energy and heating field absolute temperature (ie if the has witnessed a profound and temperature of the hot body is for Craigavon long lasting effect on domestic doubled, about 16 times the heating practices produced by energy will be radiated). It is Following their success at the 2. The unique design means a the oil crisis which struck the easy to calculate that the heat IhVex show in Dublin this year, rapid warm up from cold world in 1973. The price radiated from the refractory Craigavon Heat Exchangers are start. Two means ofheating escalation of oil combined with fire-back ofan open fire(ifit is at pleased to announce increased water, burner and hot Oue uncertainty of suppliq. 400 degs centigrade) could be sales to their stockists in the gases; inOuenced many people to get about 20 times that radiated Republic of Ireland of their new 3. Burner stays off longer away from oil fuel altogether. from a surface at 90 degs energy-saving, oil-fired range of because of the heat passing Expedients to substitute solid centigate, if the room domestic boilers. from boiler up through fuel for oil, which could almost temperature is 20 degrees The boilers, which are known heat exchanger. be described as panic measures, centigrade. as the Mizer, have incorporated were adopted, the main This is the reason why a fire a unit heat exchanger which The Mini-Mizer: 40/60,000 innovation being the introduc with a wrap-around boiler will utilises the excess heat escaping btu's will do between 7-9 tion of the wrap-around boiler. not heat a room satisfactorily up the flue to preheat the return radiators; The MK 1: 60/90,000 used in conjunction with the and must normally be water before it enters the boiler btu's will do up to 14 radiators; open fire. While some of the augmented by a hot water itself. This boiler is making oil The MK 11: 90/120,000 btu's will many boilers at present radiator in the same room. fired central heating as cheap to do up to 23 radiators; and The marketed are vastly superior to However, with the Interheat Bi run as solid fuel or natural gas MK III: 120/150,000 btu's will others, the systems suffers from Power refractory boiler direct and with no mess or do up to 30 radiators. two inherent disadvantages. radiation is much higher and inconvenience. Low level Oues may be use The first disadvantage is in eliminates the need for a The boilers come with a five don Mizer boilers. respect of combustion. All radiator in the room. year guarantee and the range For details contact Managing domestic fuels. with the A sketch of the boiler (Figure covered is from 40,000 BTU's Director G. A. Hatch at exception of the rather 1) is given above. Any heating per hour to 150,000 BTU's per Craigavon Heat Exchangers expensive smokeless fuels. engineer examining this hour and can be supplied with Ltd., 46 Seagoe Industrial contain volatiles - that is. tars drawing will immediately pose a either Riello or Electro-oil Estate, Portadown BT63 5QE. and gases which are distilled off serious question - "How is burners. Tel: Portadown 0762-330630). the firebed and burn as Oames. A circulation achieved". Behind Telex 747620. Enquiries from large proportion ofthc energy in the fireback, and connected to I. On trials against several reputable potential stockists the fuel resides in these volatiles the boiler, is a reservoir through conventional boilers they especially welcome. (about one-third in the case of which the hot water circulates. used 'Md less oi I; (Enquiry Code No 101). bituminous coal, halffor turfor The reservoir incorporates a briquettes, and up to two-thirds vertical rectangular water-way in timber). It is obvious connected directly to one of the therefore, that these constituents side tubes. The hot water rising must be burned as completelyas in this water-way produces a possible if the maximum benefit circulation effect in precisely the is to be obtained from the fuel. same way as a chimney causes a Havey-Habridge In order to ignite, thevolatiles draught. must be n:ised to a temperature The reservoir has this as a of550-700 degs centigrade. In an principal function and need not Appoint Heating open fire. this temperature is necessarily contribute anything achieved by radiation from the to the heat output. though in the Distributors fire-bed (if it has an larger models (the Hi-Power incandescent top) and from the and the Super Hi-Powerboilers) Havey-Habridge Ltd. have connections it is easily sited in refractory fire back and side there i~ provision by means of a appointed Heating Distributors kitchen, garage or airing cheeks. The temperature of a Oue for diverting some or all of Ltd. as their sole Irish agents to cupboard. wrap-around boiler surface the hot gases to heat the supply their complete range of A full range of controls and does not normally exceed 90 reservoir surface. The Interheat products from gas-fired central safety systems against degs centigrade. and any Super Hi-Power. for instance heating and domestic hot water overheating is incorporated into unignited volatiles which strike will give 2 Kilo-watts of radiant packaged plumbing modules, to the unit leaving the consumer to this surface are cooled well heat to the room and supply 10 thermostatic radiator valves. use only one control - the below their ignition temperature radiators. The Interheat Hi Currently on display in programmer - to select which and will not burn. The result will Power will emit 3 Kw radiant Heating Distributors Dublin function is required. be depo its of tar on the boiler heat and supply 6 radiators. showroom is the Impala Super2 Impala Super2systemscan be surface. The Interheat Domestic - a British Gas and new Dublin easily fitted by installation Some tar will be carried upthe Power will emit 3 Kw radiant Gas approved combination engineers with each unit chimney to form deposits and heat and supply one, two or central heating boiler and guaranteed for 12 months from increase the risk of chimney three radiators. The models cylinder. the date of installation (with the fires. and the remainder will be have been tested and approved Impala Super 2 IS a very heat exchanger for five years). carried into the atmosphere via by the IIRS and come with full efficient and economical boiler. Impala Super 2'scan be supplied the chimney, to cause installation and operating It is housed in a smart cabinet direct from Dublin. environmental pollution. This instructions. which takes up only 0.34m2 (3.7 Further details from Heating major problem i avoided in the Details from Interheat Ltd., sq. ft.) of Ooor space and, with a Distributors Ltd., 145/147, Hi-Power boiler by the use of a Unit 63, Cherry Orchard choice of four Oue positions three Richmond Road, Dublin 3. Tel: refractory fireback, which Industrial Estate, Dublin 20. horizontal and one vertical is 370531/375144-5. maintains the fuel-bed well Tel: 269949. very versatile. With readily (Enquiry Code No. 106). above the required ignition (Enquiry Code 0103). accessible gas, electric and water temperature. The second disadvantage is in https://arrow.tudublin.ie/bsn/vol24/iss7/138 Irish H& V News. JunelJuly 1985 DOI: 10.21427/D7TQ4D 40 t et al.: Irish H & V News P.J. Matthew5 - Meeting every need Ideal Boilers, now part of the Stelrad temperature of 40 degs C. With cooler Group, are marketed in Ireland by PJ return temperature the efficiency will be Matthews & Co. Ltd. and need no higher. Compare this with the traditional introduction to the heating trade. The boiler tigures of around 80% maximum. oldest Ideal boiler catalogue was issued in The Ideal Prima Turbo also features January 1911. Britannia boilers installed automatic spark ignition and fan-assisted in the '20s are still in service, as are gas combustion. fired GBB boilers installed in the early The production range of Stelrad also '50s. includes the Mexico range of floor The range of equipment for domestic standing models, both standard and heating by gas has now been added to by slimline, for natural gas and propane. The the arrival ofthe Ideal Excel. This is a new Ideal Cavalcade fills the need for those lightweight cast-iron boiler which who want agas fire with back boiler. These incorporatesa heat exchangerquite unlike are available for natural gas only and for anything previously produced for any those who require a boiler for town gas, other boiler, weighing between 71 and 83 the 'E' type floor standing and type 'W' lbs across the output range. wall mounting are still available with Natural draught and fan-assisted conversion kits for natural gas. versions ofthis boiler are available with a Most of the boilers produced by Ideal range of outputs from 5.8 kW to 17.6 kW are available in a limited range for (20,000.to 60,000 Btu/h). propane gas tiring. Later this year the tirst in a new Further details of the complete Ideal generation of domestic gas-tired boilers range of boilers are to be had from PJ produced by Stelrad will be introduced. Matthews & Co Ltd., Baggot Street, This boiler, to be known as the Ideal Prima Dublin 2 and, of course, this range Turbo, is a condensing boiler and includes not only domestic boilers butalso operating in this condensing mode will commercial, industrial boilers and water give an efficiency ratingof90% with a flow • Ideal Mexico SI/perfrom P J Matthews. heaters for oil, gas, and solid fuel firing. temperature of 60 degs C and return (Enquiry Code No 104). HI-POWER HEAT! Hi-Power Refractory Boiler From Interheat A Heat Tube Boiler Designed For People Who Take Their Heating Serious MAIN FEATURES INCLUDE * Heats the water, not the steel * More heat for less fuel * * Full standard refractory fire back * Very high level of radiatior, * * Complete combustion * Minimum fuel consumption * Does not require regular cleaning * * Quick response * * Tested and approved to 8.S. 4834 FOR FURTHER DETAILS CONTACT Interheat HOME HEATING 63 Cherry Orchard Industrial Estate, Dublin 20. Tel: 269949/269985 OR YOUR LOCAL HEATING SUPPLIER. PublishedEnquiry byCode ARROW@TUNo. 21. Dublin, 1985 Irish H& V News, June/Julv 1985 3941 Building Services Engineering, Vol. 24 [1985], Iss. 7, Art. 1 - fF ':= fF ET BE== = . - ~ -- ! = -gE - - := BE . . $ = == = =.,= :s = ffi! = =- = E = ~ = -= = = = = By Pat Lehane Blowing Bubbles - a load of hot air? Not quite so according to disaster arrived on my heating engineer with the latest desk recently - the many years of developments in DIY Guide to the practical experience, bathroom design. No installation, repair, has been able to cut self-respecting, maintenance and fault through all the fashion-conscious diagnosis of oil-fired mystique and explain 'person of the eighties' heating in everyday English will now do without a boilers/cookers of all just how the burners whirlpool bath. In the types. Published by work, how they should seventies it was the the Haynes Group be commisioned, how bidet but today the (who, incidentally, they should be whirlpool has taken have an excellent serviced and repaired over (in the rest of reputation for and, most importantly, Europe at least) as the producing DIY how to diagnose most desirable manuals for car and faults. Armed with this bathroom accessory. motorcycle manual, the In fact, in the upper maintenance) the competent do-it- echelons, it is no book would seem to you rselfer should be • "Westport Millionaire". John Lawlor posing with Eamonn longer regarded as an suggest that home able to save a great added extra but rather McGrattan's pride and job - a yellow Rolls Royce. Eamonn swears that it's not really his . .. and they say there's no money in heating installation is deal of money by a necessity. the heating industry! a mere matter of a,b,c. ensuring that the In the UK, one In fact, the blurb on domestic heating enquiries, with the market observer has £400. the inside sleeve is system is operating at assistance of the said that 'whirlpools So, maybe it's not particularly disturbing. peak efficency and by Corporation's are growing faster just a load of hot air ... it reads: - 'Until now undertaking repairs auditors, followi ng than Porsches. perhaps there's despite the fact that ' and regUlar servicing.' complaints from Fashion wise, it's the potential in a more these heating units are At a time when semi members of the UK equivalent of wearing orchestrated essentially simple to qualified 'cowboys' are Heating and white socks with a marketing campaign understand and already causing Ventilating dark suit' - whatever aimed at developing maintain, they have headaches, guides Contractors' that means! There are this area. represented a "No Go such as this are the Association. The essentially two Area" for the home last thing the industry Director General was systems - the Still with overseas handyman or woman - including the satisfied that the Aerospa, which sucks news, the British Gas - therefore forcing consumer - needs. Corporation made a in compressed air and Corporation has many householders to Howa so-called profit on its central then blows it back in agreed to give details rely upon expensive experienced heating heating installation bubbling streams; and of annual turnover, and often engineer can and contracting in the Jacuzzi, which costs and profit or loss inconvenient 1983-84. British Gas encourage non sucks water out of the in its central heating professional services. professionals to has agreed to give the bath and then blows it activities in future, 'In this new manual engage in such activity additional detail on back in soothing following enquiries Richard Smith, a mystifies me. streams. made by the Office of these activities in The former is the Fair Trading into this future an nual Reports cheaper version with area of its work. Sir as a note to its the latter likely to cost Gordon Borrie, Accounts. nearly twice as mUCh. Director General of On a somewhat Nonetheless, sales Fair Trading, said that similar vein and here elsewhere in Europe he had decided there at home, a certain are reportedly were no grounds for body is reputedly booming. using his powers going to report an While the market under the Competition operating profit for the here in Ireland would Act 1980 over first time in recent appear to be very complaints that these years. I have it straight limited, a new activities were from the horse's development from uneconomically mouth (well, once Jonig in the UK has priced. He did, removed and straight lead to greater however, consider it from the horse's penetration in the desirable that there mouth) that the same popular end of the should be more company will be scale. Called the published information projecting a £6 million Thermaperl Air about the operating profit for 1986. Now Massage Bath, this has results. wouldn't that be gas .. • Paddy C1~nan's "dresser" Eddie Egan adding the final recently been The Office of Fair Guide To Disaster? A tou~hes to hIS party's dress prior to the auction at Westport durtng MEBSCAICIBS Conference. https://arrow.tudublin.ie/bsn/vol24/iss7/1advertised at under St Trading made classic recipe for 40 Irish H& V News, JunelJuly 1985 DOI: 10.21427/D7TQ4D 42 et al.: Irish H & V News Mono-Max,Duo-Maxand Platti cavity fixings from Thorsmans give you extra advantages. They give a good and safe grip and adapt them selves to different thickness of the board. One single type is good for boards from 3 to 35 mm. They also have two other important quali ties in common. You mount them as quick as a screwplug and they stay in the wall even if you remove the screw. You have four different types to choose from: MONO-MAX For fitting light objects in boards 3-26 mm. You use it with a common woodscrew. DUO-MAX Suits boards 3-35 mm and can take up to 20 kg of load. Available with screw and hook. PLAnl Gives excellent fixing in all boards from 3-35 mm and up to 40 kg of load. Available with screw and hook. TMX Fire proof metal fixing in eight dimensions. The largest has a 40 mm grip and can take up to 60 kg of load. TMX has a specially headed screw suitable for use with slotted and star type screwdrivers. Thorsmans cavity' fixings stronger than the wall itself. The fixing specialist in Drogheda. Factory and sales: Industrial Estate, Donore Road, Drogheda, Co Louth, Ireland. Tele No. 04136541. Tlx No: 31824 TilL El. Enquiry Code No. 22. Published by ARROW@TU Dublin, 1985 43 Building Services Engineering, Vol. 24 [1985], Iss. 7, Art. 1 https://arrow.tudublin.ie/bsn/vol24/iss7/1 DOI: 10.21427/D7TQ4D 44