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POOL & WET-LEISURE FOCUS
Leisure complex shows the
way on green efficiency
Cookstown Pool and Leisure Centre in Northern Ireland is about to
boast one of the greenest heating systems in Northern Ireland.
For the last few years, a team of Co Tyrone farmers have been
growing willow trees and now the first batch has been harvested,
ready to be chipped for heating the leisure centre pool.
The £250,000 boiler house and fuel store project was officially
commissioned by council chairman Ian McCrea. The ground-breaking
renewable energy initiative is set to save the Fountain Road leisure
complex up to 50% in oil costs.
Cookstown District Council was the first in Northern Ireland to
switch from a traditional oil boiler to a bio-mass boiler for its leisure
Skypool to score in world profile
centre, used by over 25,000 people each month.
More than 2,000 kilos of willow wood chips are needed every day
Astralpool’s Skypool is set to score a worldwide success as 800 to provide the energy to heat the swimming pools and recreational
athletes from 130 different countries compete in Manchester over five facilities with the conventional oil boilers required only for back-up.
days in the largest swimming championship ever! By summer, the first harvest of willow grown locally by a consortium
Planning has been meticulous for the 9th FINA World Swimming of five farmers - Northern Bio-Energy - will fuel the 500kW boiler.
Championships held at the MEN Arena and responsibility for ensuring “Our aim was to provide the same level of service to our ratepayers,
the pools are built to the required exacting standards – and – on time, while reducing our greenhouse emissions as well as supporting local
falls in the main to Astralpool’s Simon Jones who not only appears to farming diversification for a sustainable future,“ Mr McCrea said.
be taking the whole project in his stride but also seems to be A second council, Omagh District Council, is hot on the heels of
positively enjoying the challenge exclaiming: “With the support of Cookstown and has just recently started to test its new wood chip
Astralpool Spain we have tried to take the project in our stride and at boiler at its leisure complex.
the same time enjoy the challenge of not only installing a Skypool into
Europe’s biggest concert arena but also installing it on a skating rink!
It’s been a challenge but what a challenge!”
New style ozone and
Known essentially as an International live music venue the MEN
Arena has hosted big names like Take That and Robbie Williams so
UV system arrives
how does John Knight, MEN Arena’s General Manager feel about UVOX, a system which combines processing up to 4.3m
3
/hr with a
hosting such a diverse variety of water music? UV and ozone to reduce the need high Ozone output, the largest,
“We are very excited by the challenge of turning the MEN into a for chlorination has been launched the 160w 450 can process up to
world class swimming arena. We’ve never attempted anything like this on the market by Euroby Ltd. 14.4m
3
/hr of drinking quality or
before and the project is capturing the imagination of public and staff The company is a sludge swimming pool water, and up to
alike. It will be a thrilling time for everyone involved and we are looking specialist business who says the 28.8m
3
of effluent or industrial
forward to adding a touch of rock and roll to the proceedings.” product stems from its novel process water. Multiple UVOX
A total of 8,000 seats will surround the main Astralpool Skypool with the method of first producing ozone units can be mounted in parallel
understudy pool tucked away out of the public eye to allow the athletes to by irradiating air with a specially to accommodate larger flows.
limber up in privacy before the main event and to cool down afterwards. designed lamp with UV light at Water used for delicate
Visit www.astralpool.com for more information. 185nm, mixing the ozone with the processes also benefits from
water to be treated, and again treatment with UVOX. More and
Innovative water
will be ideal for water management exposing the mixture to UV light more uses are being found for
in any public environment. at 254nm using the same lamp. this unique system, a recent
control system
The new system enables Lewes This process forms OH- radicals application has been in the
Swimming pools and leisure clubs prison staff to control water flows which are powerful oxidants, washing of contaminated soils
could benefit from an innovative to hygiene and sanitation facilities breaking up organic compounds from old filling stations.
new water control system currently in two cells from one simple unit. such as nitrites, cyanides, odorous The UVOX system can be
being installed at HMP Lewes. It saves water, is more flexible and sulphur compounds, pesticides controlled using a specially
Inmates and prison staff at the more hygienic than traditional and even parasites. Any remaining developed controller which
category B prison will benefit control methods. ozone is destroyed, usually monitors ozone levels in the
from a new control system. It will The WDC200 system has been eliminating the requirement for an water and UV light intensity. Up
keep their washing and toilet developed by UK secure activated carbon filter. to five other parameters such as
facilities clean and hygienic - and sanitation specialists Wallgate Ltd, The 254nm UV light also kills pH may be measured using
save water too. who produce a wide range of pathogens such as e-coli, plug-in sensors, and 16 (TTL)
But the system could benefit a systems for secure environments, salmonella and legionella. switching channels are provided
wide range of leisure clubs, says and are based in Wiltshire. There are now six UVOX allowing control of other
designers Wallgate. Visit www.wallgate.com for models in the range, the smallest, components such as a chemical
The manufacturers believe that it more information. the 100w UVOX-200 is capable of dosing pump.
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