Calorex takes control at Corby on Architect News

Britain's newest 50m pool at Corby, Northamptonshire, is maintaining energy efficient environmental control of its water, air temperature and humidity control via a one-stop heat recovery and dehumidification system from British manufacturer's Calorex Heat Pumps.
A trio of Calorex Heat Recovery Dehumidification units are being used at the £20m state of the art leisure complex that opened in the summer of 2009 and features the eight lane 50m main pool complete with moving floor and boom plus a four-lane learner pool, a fun pool complete with pirate ship and an Aquatube body ride.
For each kW of electrical energy used to operate a Calorex environmental control unit up to 3.5 kW of energy is recovered - the only humidity control system which recovers more energy than it uses.
In order to ensure maximum performance and savings are achieved, the Calorex Heat Recovery Dehumidification range is fully commissioned, free of charge, once the units are installed and the pool is filled ready for use.
Energy-efficient Heat Recovery Dehumidification systems re-circulate air within the swimming pool room removing unwanted moisture that has evaporated from the pool surface. Latent energy that the machine collects as part of this process is turned into ‘sensible heat’ that is used to reheat the pool water and room air. This creates a self-perpetuating heat cycle that, under normal pool operating conditions, will provide all of the water heating and 70% of the space heating.
This ensures energy costs and carbon emissions are kept to a minimum. Simultaneously, automatic controlled quantities of outside air are introduced in to the building and slightly smaller quantities of pool room air are exhausted from the building. This process ensures dilution of CO² and chemical odours, as well as ensuring the pool room is always held with a slight negative pressure to prevent migration of pool hall air to other rooms.
During winter months latent and sensible energy is recovered from the outgoing pool room air and incoming outside air is preheated from this process. During summer months the process is reversed so that incoming outside air is pre cooled before entering the room. The unit also contains a low pressure hot water air heater, which when connected to a boiler, will provide supplementary space heating.
“Swimming pools continuously evaporate large volumes of moisture into the space around them and unless this moisture is removed, the humidity level will rise, creating not only an uncomfortable environment but also leading to structural/building fabric damage,” explains Richard Carrington managing director for the environmental control specialists, based in Maldon, Essex.
The Corby facility is included in both the London 2012’s Olympic and Paralympic Pre-Games Training Camp Guides and will be a regional competition facility. The building, the vision of S & P Architects and built by Wilmott Dixon has been designed to be sustainable and will gain the BREEAM Very Good standard.
Calorex has been researching, designing and manufacturing a comprehensive range of environmentally friendly heat pumps and dehumidifiers designed for swimming pools for more than 30 years. The Calorex range is distributed in the UK by Certikin International Tel. 01993 778855 www.certikin.co.uk

Edited by Karli Edmondson

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Edited by Karli Edmondson

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