Getting bored.... so time to play with using my hot tank as a store of therms and run its hot water through a plate heat exchanger heating the rising main as it goes through and on to a shower.....
I have the hot tank, and a spare new pump, so just need the heat exchanger and a flow switch to sense hot water draw off.
Any suggestions for sources of the heat exchangers and are there good and "not-so-good" ones on the market to be avoided ?
Thanks,
Nick
No bad ones as far as I know.
For plate heat exchagers, try:
GEA ECOFLEX UK Tel.: 01909 551107 FAX : 01909 550885 snipped-for-privacy@gea-ecoflex.com
Also:
Take a look at GEA Ecobraze.
I have one of their heat exchangers in an application isolating a heating circuit for my workshop from the main house circuit, but with the latter providing the heat.
The one that I have is a 24 plate model 18 little larger than a housebrick and will transfer greater than 100kW if required.
.andy
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Flow switches:
plate one costs ?
The 28 plate was south of £100 last time I looked.
In the £80-100 range.
This is uninsulated.
You can get insulated ones, but I simply made a box from ply lined with Celotex and fitted the exchanger into it.
.andy
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Thanks - think I'll get one to play with.
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