Fulton Boiler Works has designed, supplied, installed and commissioned a fully-packaged, prefabricated steam plant room as part of a £2.8 million refurbishment programme for South Wales-based St Joseph’s Hospital.

The independent, purpose-built private hospital, which offers a range of services to both insured and self-funding patients, specified aFultonplant room because of its renowned durability, reliability, energy efficiency and the company’s after-sales support.

Steam from the bespoke plant room, which contains two Fulton50J vertical boilers, is being used to supply a secondary plant room containing a reverse osmosis hot water circulation system and hot soft-water plate heat exchanger, as well as two sterilisers and two instrument washer disinfectors in the hospital’s Sterilisation and Disinfection Unit. It is also being used for humidification and domestic hot water through two steam-to-water plate heat exchangers.

Commenting for St Joseph’s, hospital engineer Eddie Miller says: “Even though the hospital’s two existing 24-year-old electric steam generators were still operational and in good working order, they needed to be decommissioned at the same time as the old Theatre Sterile Supply Unit. We were aware that the new plant room had a lot to live up to, so had no hesitation in approachingFultonfor the programme.”

The plant room was designed by a team of engineers from Fulton and the hospital’s mechanical and electrical consulting engineers Hoare Lea Cardiff, using the latest CAD software. 

Many of the problems associated with legionella in air conditioning and air handling plant are created by the injection of contaminated water into the airstream to increase relative humidity.

By injecting low-pressure steam, which is an inherently sterile medium, the risk of legionella developing is greatly reduced.

Fulton Limited manufactures a wide range of high-performance steam boilers, including the RBC Horizontal Boiler, with capacities from 14 to 4787 kg/h for electricity, gas and oil firing. Architects and consultants also regularly specifyFulton’s J Series and Electropack steam boilers to humidify air conditioning and air handling systems.

Fulton’s renowned gas- and oil-fired J Series vertical steam boiler has nine models covering outputs from 96 to 960 kg/h and operating pressures up to 10.34 bar. The tubeless design, invented byFulton, eliminates the coils and tubes traditionally used in steam raising plant and enables the boiler to raise its full steam output in just 20 minutes.

Fulton’s electric steam boiler range has benefited from the addition of two new boilers with the launch of the Europack 250 and the Europack 300, which have outputs of 250kw (400kg/h) and 300kW (480kg/h) respectively.

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Two one-day training courses recently introduced by leading steam boiler manufacturer Fulton Limited have been certified by City & Guilds.

The courses offer a mix of theoretical and practical operational assignments which, despite their newly certified status, Fulton claims still bridges the gap between the more expensive courses – those that can cost many thousands of pounds per employee – and straightforward ‘toolbox’ training.

Commenting for Fulton, customer services manager Jeff Byrne says: "The addition of City & Guilds certification to our training adds value to the courses and supports both the Safe Management of Industrial Steam and Hot water boilers Guidelines BG01 (SAFed) and INDG-436 (HSE) with regard to operation and training.”

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Carl Knight, the sales and marketing manager for Fulton Ltd, discusses why the regular maintenance and servicing of a steam boiler is so important.

In short, regular servicing and maintenance is essential to maintain the optimum operating efficiency and safety of boiler facilities; and ensure their long-term reliability. 

However, a key issue that is often overlooked are the consequences of a boiler not being available due to maintenance or breakdown. Like any piece of equipment, a steam boiler will be more reliable when serviced on a regular basis and, fortunately, a minimum level of annual maintenance is needed due to the legal requirement of having the need to have your boiler inspected on an annual basis.  Hopefully, this opportunity can also be used to undertake all routine service tasks, but it should be borne in mind that, depending on the level of use, a boiler may require more frequent maintenance and service inspections.

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As part of £750,000 upgrade to its existing brewery equipment, Hampshire-based Triple FFF Brewery Company has installed a 60J gas-fired vertical steam boiler from Fulton Boiler Works.

The brewery was founded in 1997 and currently brews a number of real ales such as Moondance, Comfortably Numb, Pressed Rat and Warthog, Dazed & Confused andAlton’s Pride. It has also won over sixty industry awards including Best Beer Gold Award at the CAMRA beer festival and, more recently, Best Beer at the Southampton Beer Festival.

TheFulton60J, which has replaced Triple FFF’s existing electric boiler, is being used to supply heat for the real ale brewing process as well as steam for cleaning and sterilising kegs and process equipment.

Commenting for Triple FFF, managing director Graham Trott says: “Our aim is to brew ale that real ale drinkers will want to drink. By using steam from the Fulton 60J in the cleaning and sterilising process we can eliminate the chemicals that many ‘Craft Breweries’ use. We believe this improves the quality and taste of our beers and extends shelf life by up to six weeks.”

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Fulton wins plant room order for Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospitals NHS Trust/Royal Berkshire Hospital Upgrade

Fulton Boiler Works has recently supplied a fully packaged, steam plant room as part of a £132 million upgrade to The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, which has involved the main buildings and wards ofBattleHospitalbeing demolished and moved to a new site.

The plant room, which is owned by The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and operated by Synergy Healthcare, is located on a retained section of the former Battle Hospital site in Reading and its three 50J gas-fired steam boilers provide steam to sterilise surgical and other instruments. It was designed, fully finished and pre-packaged atFulton’s factory and shipped to the Trust as part of a site redevelopment and boiler decentralisation project.Fultonwas able to use the latest CAD technology to integrate the plant room equipment and ensure that it was easily accessible within the space available.

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