Heat Pump installations at 3 Community swimming pools close to Penrith Cumbria
Photographs taken during 1982 & 1983
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Lazonby swimming pool on a nice warm summers day. | |
| JCB about to cross the river Eden | Slowly does it. | Making the hole for the ring where the water pump will go. |
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| Positioning concrete ring | Digging trench up to the plant room | Flygt submersible pump that pumps out the river water. |
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| Ian Rogers starts to make the former for the fiberglass dome. | You have to work fast with plaster of paris, or it will set! | …..the perfect sphere |
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| making the mould for the fiberglass shell. Copper heatexchanger beneath the cardboard former. | Sphere attached and covered with foil to act as release agent. | On with the smelly fiberglass |
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| Evaporator finished and ready to go | Arrival at the pool | |
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| Very nice Sporlan expansion valve in action. Inferior valve shown to the left. | You can just see the water returning to the river. It returns about 3°C colder than the river temperature. | Cleaning of the evaporator after a seasons use. |
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| Yvonne Simpson turning a wooden pattern for the heat exchanger ends. | Ian meting bronze with a paraffin burner and old beer barrel. | Ian pouring the bronze into the mould |
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| Machining the rough cast heat-exchanger end plate. | The plant room at Lazonby showing the hermetically sealed compressor (grey), and new casting soldered to 3″ copper pipes (red) attached to the shell & tube condenser is below. | Plant room at Greystoke. Almost identical, but made to fit the room. Both systems provide about 24kW of heat. |
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| Air source evaporator at Greystoke. The finned coil lays flat and is about 6 feet long. | Control panel showing user controls and indicators | Askham Pool… work in progress. This one has two smaller compressors giving about 30kW of heat |
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| System finished and running nicely | Evaporators vertical with this design. Showing one cowling for the fan about to be fitted | Tom and Richard, willing helpers fitting the fans at Askham. Thanks lads! |
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