Thermal Energy International’s award winning, GEM venturi orifice steam traps have helped the Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust towards a 25% reduction in emissions, £800,000 in energy savings and winning the prestigious HSJ Energy Efficiency Award. Thermal Energy International has supplied the Trust with 153 GEM traps, which have been installed in a spectrum of installations including Space Heating and Domestic Hot Water Calorifiers.
The Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust occupies a 52-acre site about 1½ miles from Bath City Centre. The 565-bed hospital provides a comprehensive range of acute services to the 500,000 population of Bath, North East Somerset, North and West Wiltshire.
The HSJ Efficiency Awards, in association with Health Trust Europe, identify and reward the organisations that have delivered tangible improvements in healthcare efficiency and cost savings, whilst maintaining the highest levels of patient care. One hundred and fourteen organisations and their partners were shortlisted for the awards with the winners beingannounced at a gala dinner held in London last month.
In addition to the installation of Thermal Energy International’s GEM venturi steam traps, the judges praised the Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust for its dedicated approach in reducing the hospital’s carbon footprint, saving money and improving the hospital environment by installing a new Combined Heat & Power (CHP) system and LED lighting.
The judges stated that the Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust had implemented: “A whole system approach in sustainable healthcare, based around delivery of a comprehensive and wide ranging energy effriciency programme.”
Thermal Energy has worked closely with the NHS over the last 3 years to develop a number of energy saving and emission reducing projects for both its Flue Gas Condensing Economisers and GEM venturi orifice steam traps. Energy savings have encompassed a wide range of applications from laundries to space heating and hot water heat exchangers to CHP systems.
Instead of utilising a valve mechanism to close off steam, the highly efficient GEM steam traps use the patented venturi orifice design to effectively drain condensate from the steam system and maximise energy and water conservation. As the GEM steam traps have no moving parts to wedge open or fail they provide a permanent solution to steam trapping and condensate return problems. GEM steam traps also improve product processing by enhancing the quality of steam and reducing equipment repairs, downtime and replacement costs.
TEI’s flue gas condensing heat recovery economisers can reduce the energy consumption of an industrial boiler by up to 18% by capturing the waste heat in the flue stream and converting it to hot water.
