Second time exhibitor has plans for The Energy Event 2007
April 11th 2007

Tapworks exhibited at last year’s exhibition and was very encouraged by both the quantity and quality of visitors to the show - and to its stand. So much so, that it booked a stand at The Energy Event 2007 immediately.

Typical of the type of enquiry they received was from that from a specifier for a hotel project in a hard water area of the UK looking for an answer to the problems associated with limescale in bathrooms - where you can see it - and in heating systems, where you can’t.

Hard water won’t be a problem at the Mercure Holland House Hotel & Spa which has recently opened on Redcliffe Hill in Bristol city centre.

Bristol is part of the more than 60 per cent of the UK to be affected by hard water and the evidence of the damage it causes is clear for everyone to see - shower heads clogged with scale, grimy bathrooms, cleaned glasses and cutlery still look smeared. It’s arguably worse where you can’t see it – in heating systems –where boilers, radiators, pumps and pipework suffer the ravages of limescale build up that can make a huge impact on energy bills and major maintenance costs. With the installation of a Tapworks North Star commercial water softener, the hotel has banished the problems of hard water before they even begin. The softener specified has a capacity to soften 52,600 litres of water a day and a peak flow rate of 16.5 litres a second – plenty to cope with a 275 bedroom hotel and all its water requirements.”

According to Government figures, scale can build up at 1.5mm every year and a leading trade association says that in hard water areas, just 1.6mm of scale in heating systems causes a 12% loss in heat transfer from the energy source – gas or electricity - to water. Tapworks has been able to show an average 32 per cent saving on running costs by installing a Tapworks unit in place of existing softeners already installed.

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