As part of a continuous improvement programme at its market-leading,
off-site decontamination units serving its hospitals, Nuffield
Health has recently installed Fulton skid-mounted steam boiler
packages with remote monitoring capabilities at each of its off-site
Decontamination Units in Wetherby, Stoke, Cambridge, Eastleigh,
Tiverton and Warwick.
Each of the six sites contains a skid-mounted package consisting of
three 60J boiler plus ancillaries and all eighteen boilers are being
remotely monitored by an innovative Fulton-designed telemetry
system, which complies with the current PGS2 standard. The system is
capable of reporting critical alarm conditions such as primary and
secondary low water, flame failure, high pressure and high water for
each of the three dual-fuel 60J units per site, two of which are
firing constantly with one on standby. The system also monitors
signals from digital and analogue meters for gas, electric and water
supplies and steam pressure. If a critical alarm condition is
raised, the boilers will automatically shut down and the Fulton
telemetry system will notify Nuffield site engineers via BT Redcare.
The next phase of the programme will enable the telemetry system to
provide an overview of the operating conditions of each boiler,
remotely via the internet. This will be installed when the new BG01
standard is ratified by the CEA, SAFed and HSE and is expected to
reduce Nuffield’s regular plant room visits from 24-hour intervals
to as little as every 72 hours.
Commenting for Nuffield Health, site engineer Simon Baker says:
“Under the old PM5 and PGS2 standards, manually monitoring six sites
and 18 boilers 24-hours a day, six days a week cost Nuffield Health
in excess of £160,000 a year. With Fulton working towards the BG01
standard and future-proofing the plant rooms using remote monitoring
via telemetry, we will be able to reduce this figure substantially.
Nuffield Health is the only independent hospital group in the UK to
be fully compliant with EC directives on instrument decontamination
and it is really important that we have the most reliable equipment
possible so that we can ensure continuity of service to our
hospitals.”
Each of the skid-mounted packages designed and manufactured by
Fulton, comprises three 60J boilers, a blowdown vessel, condensate
recovery system and water treatment plant. Each Fulton package was
connected to existing site services, which included a clean steam
generator and heat exchanger, and now provides steam for Nuffield’s
in-house decontamination and sterilisation services and DHW and
heating.
Every day the plant room boilers are blown down, visually checked
and alarm systems tested by site engineers. All six plant rooms are
also covered by a comprehensive Fulton service contract.
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