Supplying an innovative heating solution that enable safe care home visits

As the Coronavirus pandemic continues, nursing and residential care homes across the country are creating new methods to ensure that their residents can safely see family members. Mibec has recently worked with Cheswardine Hall, a family owned and run residential home for the elderly, to enable their residents to continue these important Covid secure visits with family.  A new outdoor cabin had been built in the grounds of the home to facilitate visiting but with the pandemic continuing as the winter cold set in, delivering heating to the cabin became an urgent priority for the management team to allow family
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Size Matters: Creating 500,000l of thermal storage

At Mibec we can build buffer tanks up to an incredible 200,000l in size. We use our expertise to ensure that we have the supply chain in place to deliver high-quality, oversized thermal storage solutions to projects across the UK and Ireland.   We were contacted to deliver this project to provide almost 500,000l of water storage. To deliver this effectively, we opted to use three 166,000l thermal stores. The challenge Mibec worked closely with the M&E on the project to agree the full specification for the tanks, the testing regime and address important requirements that are unique to this project.
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Flexible pipe solutions for your hot tub installation

Mibec has recently undertaken the successful specification and delivery of our pre-insulated pipe for both domestic and commercial hot tub installations. Hot tubs are increasingly popular at holiday parks, small self-catering holiday lets as well as in average gardens as people seek to make the most of their home environment.   The challenge Traditionally hot tubs have been sited next to buildings or heat sources to suit the ease of connecting to utilities rather than where the homeowner or site owner would like the hot tub to be. At Mibec we wanted to create a system that is straightforward, frees up
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Delivering cost savings with a tailored replacement tank

Mibec has recently undertaken the successful specification and delivery of a unique stainless-steel buffer tank for a water treatment works in the east end of London. At Mibec, we use our years of experience to provide a solution to even the most complex of projects, as was the case here.  The challenge Most of our bespoke buffer tank orders are received at the early stages of the project enabling us to work with the project team to identify the correct tank for the application. This customer contacted us following the unexpected dramatic failure of an already installed tank at their
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Packaged Plate Heat Exchangers – Uses & Applications

Packaged Plate Heat Exchangers – Uses & Applications At Mibec we offer a range of plate heat exchangers from Cordivari, in this short article we take a look at some of the applications and usage together with the key components in their construction. Cordivari plate heat exchangers are used in domestic and industrial applications and in particular they’re suitable for Domestic Hot Water (DHW) production and in district heating applications. They are also commonly used for the heating of swimming pools and can integrate with a number of different energy sources such as traditional boilers, biomass and solar thermal systems.
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What is an Expansion Vessel?

What is an Expansion Vessel? In this short article we look at expansion vessels and their uses. An expansion vessel is a small tank used to protect closed water heating systems and domestic hot water systems from excessive pressure caused by water hammer and thermal expansion of the water inside the sealed system. An expansion vessel is usually split into two compartments divided by a diaphragm. One side is connected to the heating systems pipework and is filled with water; the other side contains a gas such as nitrogen under pressure. As the water pressure in the heating system increases
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Volcano Heaters – Advantages of new EC motors vs standard AC motors

Volcano Heaters – Advantages of new EC motors vs standard AC motors At Mibec we are a pleased to offer our customers Volcano heaters from VTS, a major European manufacturer of HVAC technology. Volcano heatersoffer a modern and extremely efficient method of heating large volume spaces inside commercial, industrial and public buildings such as warehouses, factories, supermarkets and sports halls. VTS have recently updated their Volcano range to include new innovative energy saving EC motors. In this short article we investigate the new technology involved and benefits of this change for the building occupier and designer. EC stands for Electronically Commutated
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Wall Mounted Buffer Tanks for Heat Pumps

Wall Mounted Buffer Tanks for Heat Pumps If you are thinking about using a heat pump on your next project including a buffer tank in the system design will provide significant efficiency and other benefits for the property. At Mibec we are able to offer a wide range of buffer tanks from leading European manufacturers such as Cordivari and one of their new products the wall mounted VT PDC is ideal for use in domestic or small commercial properties where a heat pump has been specified.The tank comes in two sizes – 12, 25 or 50 litres to suit your project
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Chilled Water Tanks for Data Centres

  Chilled Water (CHW) systems used to cool electrical equipment are becoming increasingly common in commercial applications such as large data centres and IT server rooms. It is very important to keep temperatures at a consistent and low level in data centres as any increase can lead to reduced efficiency of the computer systems and a risk of costly downtime or even equipment failure. For servers hosting websites, email and critical business systems interruptions in service can be extremely costly for organisations. Buffer tanks form a key component in chilled water systems, often being used to provide additional volume in
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Metering solutions for HIUs

Metering solutions for HIUs Heat Interface Units (HIUs) are a great solution for use in shared district heating schemes and at Mibec we can supply HIUs and accompanying Heat Meters in a number of permutations to suit the project requirements. In this short article we investigate metering solutions for HIU applications. Within a district heating scheme each home or apartment will have its own HIU installed, which uses heat distributed from the central network to provide heating and domestic hot water (DHW) for use in the home, completely replacing the requirement for individual boilers in each property. To the end
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