Preventing Scaling Caused By Hardwater in Hospitals

FLUID DYNAMICSFOCUS ON WATERTREATMENT FOR HOSPITALSREDUCING THE USE OF ENERGY AND CHEMICALS IN HARD WATERScale caused by hard water.The accumulation of scale will cause a number of problems.The first is the additional cost a customer must spend ontreating the problem, many companies will spend a large sumon chemical treatment, reducing the amount of scale formingand the removal of deposited scale. This will also bringadditional health and safety risks as employers must abide bystringent handling procedures to avoid potentially fatalincidents.Furthermore scale formation will decrease the efficiency ofequipment resulting in an increase in running costs and wastedenergy.Fluid Dynamics SolutionFor over 35 years Fluid Dynamics hasmanufactured and supplied its simple to usenon-chemical solutions to hopsitals around theworld. All our water treatment equipment usesno power, requires no maintenance and istotally environment friendly. Put simply anycustomers with hard water will benefitconsiderably from the installation of FluidDynamics equipmentFluid Dynamics Installations in hospitalsInstalled in 1997 till present 20 x ½’’ Colloid-A-Tron units were installed in bed-pan washer systemsto prevent the nozzles from blocking.Since installation of Colloid-A-Tron the bed panwashing system has not required any cleaning asscale build up no longer occurs.Leicester Royal InfirmaryLeicester, U.KInstalled ½’’ unitFluid Dynamics Installations in hospitalsInstalled in 1985 till present 1 x 3’’ Colloid-A-Tronwas installed to protect the service water pipelinesfrom scale.Since installation of Colloid-A-Tron the pipes haveremained scale free preventing a loss in pressureand maintaining pump efficiency.Herzzentrum Kaiser-Wilhelm-KrankenhausDuisburg, GermanyFluid Dynamics Installations in hospitalsTHE PROBLEMGARRAHAN Hospital, the largest paediatrics hospital in Argentina, suffered from seriousscaling caused by hard water in the cooling system in a battery of vacuum pumps used inthe operating theatres surgery section. In total there are currently nine circuits, each witheighteen pumps.THE SOLUTIONEach vacuum pump works with an oil seal. Water used to refrigerate the oil re-circulatesand its temperature is controlled with a fan-coil system, but due to its hardness, intensivecleaning of the heat exchangers and fan coils was necessary once a week. In May 1994,Garrahan Hospital decided to install a ½” catalytic SCALETRON unit on each pump, toprevent the scale build- up. The results and benefits were excellent and no furthercleaning has been necessary. Indeed, since the installation of the SCALETRONS,maintenance to each pump is only of a preventative kind due to wear on mechanicalparts.NationalPaediatricsHospital,Buenos Aires,ArgentinaFluid Dynamics Installations 2011Cypress Medical CentreMonterey, California2’’ Colloid-A-Tron General System ProtectionInstalled February 2011Japan International Co-operation HospitalPalestine2 x 2’’ Colloid-A-TronInstalled February 2011Clinica Alcivar, Leading Maternity HospitalEcuador1 x 3’’ Colloid-A-Tron1 x 1.5’’ Colloid-A-Tron1 x 3/4;’’ Colloid-A-TronInstalled January 2011 Fluid Dynamics ?Focus on water treatment for hospitals Scale caused by hard water. Fluid Dynamics Solution Fluid Dynamics Installations in hospitals Fluid Dynamics Installations in hospitals Fluid Dynamics Installations in hospitals Fluid Dynamics Installations 2011