Housing cooperative Lysbomben
Project facts:
- Object: BRF LYSBOMBEN
- Customer: HSB Stockholm
Fastighetsservice - Construction year: 1962
- Storeys: 16
- Apartments: 210
- Architect: Henning Orlando
- Known tenant: Tage Erlander
- Address: Kungsholmen, Stockholm
- Products supplied by TTM:
1 pc NoXygen®
1 pc MAG 76 Magnetite filter
HSB Stockholm Fastighetsservice
Kungsholmen
– high-level energy efficiency
Air and gases in radiators and fan systems that froze in the winter created problems and cold apartments for tenants at the top of the brf Lysbomben building. Peter Stefani at HSB suggested the installation of a degasser. This turned out to be a profitable suggestion.
NoXygen® was chosen from the outset to deal with functional disruptions due to gas in the system fluid, but positive effects in terms of energy savings were quick to follow. HSB had a plan to improve the energy efficient of the property, not least because the tenant-owner’s association had for several years been subject to penalty fees due to poor cooling of the district heating return line.
We could see positive effects after about a month. The penalty fees gradually reduced, finally becoming a temperature bonus.
Installation of NoXygen® with MAG 76
NoXygen® was chosen from the outset to deal with functional disruptions due to gas in the system fluid, but positive effects in terms of energy savings were quick to follow. HSB had a plan to improve the energy efficient of the property, not least because the tenant-owner’s association had for several years been subject to penalty fees due to poor cooling of the district heating return line. They therefore had a good overview of heating costs.
The NoXygen equipment was commissioned in mid-September 2014. Initially, it was planned to install a standard model NoXygen®, but due to the high system pressure, the decision was made to install a NoXygen® F, which can cope with 5.5 bar. The system had high gas levels and needed constant and significant degassing to maintain the gases at acceptable levels. The degasser is therefore run continuously in manual mode with maximum degassing, instead of in maintenance mode with just 1 hour of degassing every day.
Immediate effects
We could see positive effects after about a month. The penalty fees gradually reduced, finally becoming a temperature bonus.
Fortum’s penalty fees due to poor cooling of the district heating return line:
Year ı Fee
2011 ı SEK 9793
2012 ı SEK 18868
2013 ı SEK 34298
2014 ı SEK 13949
2015 ı SEK 785
Without the NoXygen® degasser, the cost of penalty fees in the period 2011–2015 would have amounted to SEK 131,555.
Instead the sum was SEK 77,700.
“When we installed the degasser in the system, we got an immediate dividend. We’re saving SEK 40,000 per year for an initial investment of SEK 50,000,” says Sverker Högberg, Chair of the brf Lysbomben association.
TTM NoXygen® F650
Documentation:
Product facts:
TTM NoXygen® F:
- Fully automatic
- Works with a partial flow pumped from the main pipe and treated with a vacuum in the NoXygen unit.
- For media temperatures down to –10° C