VT Booster Sets from Dutypoint

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Good afternoon, all. I hope you’re hearing okay. I’m here this afternoon with my colleague Chris Lang. We’re here to talk about the all-new VT range of booster sets from Dutypoint. So as I said I’m Jesse Freeman, Category Manager for pressure boosting, and also presented is my colleague and fellow

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category manager, Chris Lang. So, I’ve got to look at the contents page, we’ll have a brief introduction running through a bit about why we’ve developed a new booster set and and where it fits in the Dutypoint portfolio, and then I’ll take you through some of the key

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features and benefits. Chris will then take you through some more in depth detail on the multistage pumps we’re using in this unit, and then I’ll finish up by giving some detail on the smart control panel. So, with that I’ll hand over to Chris to give a bit of detail on the introduction to this booster set.

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Good afternoon. Thank you very much, Jesse, and as he said my name is Chris Lang. I’m also a Category Manager with Dutypoint and I’m just going to take you through a bit of where this new product sits within the range of booster sets. You may or may not be familiar already with

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some of the products we do, but then this slide just gives you an overview of the different booster set ranges we have, starting with the DX right up to the VMV, and the VT kind of sits in the middle. So in terms of in terms of the spec and features, it is

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kind of in-between the VG and the VR, and in terms of the spec and the performance it is very much equivalent to the VR. So then the obvious the obvious question with that is “well, why do we need this new booster set?”, and what we’ve generally been finding is the VR is a very

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high-quality booster set and it’s specifically designed for space-saving applications. So places where plant room is just really tight, where space is premium, so city centers it’s very popular because it’s it takes up about 40% less space than most booster sets of equivalent

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performance. Now, that’s a great feature a lot of the time, but sometimes that’s just not necessary. Sometimes actually or maybe not working with a plant room where the space is that confined that you need to pay a premium, or budget a premium for a booster set that will

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save that bit of space. So, the VT is a bit more of a standard design but what we try to do is just kind of go from the ground up to make a really new booster set design just with the features that you really need, but also to make it really easy to maintain. So,

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that’s been a key consideration which we’ll come on to more a bit later, but here it’s just kind of a key comparison between the standard, the sort of the VT and the VR. So, starting at the top the VT is this sort more standard layout with the suction discharge manifolds

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opposite each other to pressure transducers, and we always recommend having at least one backup transducer because that is the key sensor of the unit, whereas the VR has a press transducer per pump, so if there’s three pumps that means there’s three press transducers, which is great

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for and backup and redundancy, but it’s not always necessary to have that level of redundancy. The VR has motor mounted inverter drives, which are usually designed for Hydrovar units, so it’s also available with VASCO, whereas with the VT or the inverse drives are actually

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contained within the control panel, so you can actually see on the image that the pump doesn’t have any inverter drives on top. It’s still a variable speed set, it’s just the inverters are actually within the control panel, which is quite nice from a sort of maintenance point of view because

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everything and all the controls or all the electronics are really contained within that one control panel, and those really are the key differences. You’ve got the same options for two or three pumps, AISI 304 stainless steel vertical multistage pumps are standard,

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both variable speed is standard, anti-vibration mounts are included as standard which is really important with a variable speed booster set, and pressure and vessels are included as standard, they’re not an extra, they’re not something you

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have to install as a bolt-on next to the set. They’re all included, and both sets are fully WRAS approved. So you know, both really high quality bits of kit, just slightly different priorities in their design. So, just to summarise here there’s a few the key features of the VT

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and the integrated control panel which has got a touchscreen display which Jesse will come on to a bit more a little later, and one of the one of the key things with this idea of maintainability is standard spare parts. Now with a lot of

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manufacturers, take the well known pump manufacturers (I probably don’t have to tell you who they are), it’s often necessary to purchase specific spare parts, and by spare parts I mean things like motors to mechanical seals, inverter drives, whereas what we’ve tried to do is

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make it give you a lot more flexibility in terms of spare parts. So rather than having to come back to us as Dutypoint to purchase spare parts, all the key components are standard products that you can just get on the open market, so we think

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actually that will make them a much easier sort of more maintainable unit. Three-year guarantee and the pumps should help as well integrated and vibration mounts and as with most of as with most of our products, we designed them with a principle that everything can be sort of

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disassembled and maintained properly without the use of any sort of special tools, anything that you just won’t have on-site necessarily. So, I’m going to hand you back over to Jesse to talk a bit more about the detail spec of this unit. So, Jesse… Brilliant, thanks

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Chris. Helpful insight there. So, a bit more detail on the units themselves, as you can see another view of the product here. So if we start with the HMI touch screen for a minute, we’ll show you a few more screenshots on this later but it is a really good feature there. They’re fully

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fully touchscreen as I say, and easy interface for the user, and simple messaging and display. They’ve got the unified control panel, Chris did mention it just then, so all the inverters for the control of the unit actually within the panel, everything needed for controlling the set is all in one

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place as such, and it’s got full electrical and mechanical isolation, flange section discharge connections, and then it’s got an integrated expansion vessel with a drain off point for ease of maintenance and service, and again how to go to skid with integral and vibration mounts. So, in terms of the

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performance and the range overview it’s got two and three pump options similar to the VR range that we currently do. We’re actually looking to extend this in the future to as much as eight pumps and a good range of duties you can see, up to twenty-four

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litres a second, and max operating pressure of 15 bar, and then so got a very broad suite of standard control features here as you can see. It’s got a cyclic duty changeover, which is obviously to ensure even wear across all pumps, and it’s got a very good anti-seize feature, so in periods of low or

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zero usage, the pumps that will actually spin at the pumps, just very slow speed automatically to fretless easing up, so we can always be assured that the pumps will be ready in good condition whenever you need them, and then it’s got the high rise feature. This is

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where the system is filled slowly on initial follow, or following a power failure to prevent a potentially dangerous surge in the system. It’s got a good range of digital interfaces, they’re a standard to common fault, low level, high level, and then it’s got external on/off as well. So, have a quick look at

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the naming convention, what do the codes mean? So, as you can see here the T2, that’s number of pumps to there, 05 meters cubed now, and then the last three digits there’s the kilowatt, so this particular one will be 1.5 kilowatt and the T or the M is the

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power supply, so either single-phase 230 volt or three-phase 400 volt. So, if we look at the models here we’ve got twenty three models in total and the range, so a good range there with three and single-phase variants up to and including four kilowatt, so really good

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range to see the majority of mid mid range duties. Now we’ll move on to the next slide there. Another really exciting feature of this range is that we’re actually going to stock start units, so be pleased to hear no more long lead times. So we’ll be stocking all models in the three phase

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variant, and then 1.5 kilowatt in single-phase but needn’t worry all the other single phase variance are only three days to wait. So, a brief note on testing and setup. As these units are in stock they will be tested as as normal, and also set up to a nominal mid curve

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duty so they will operate safely when when powered up on site, but in order to fine tune it on site they can be this can be sorted on site as part of the standard commissioning procedure, and due to it being a stocked product again there won’t be any special variations

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available, but we can still offer customisation on the other ranges we offer. I should have mentioned if we can do a specific set up service just for an additional £180 if if the set is needed to operate as designed straight away, but as standard it

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shouldn’t be necessary to use this option. So, before we hand over to Chris, are there any questions at this stage from what we’ve covered? Feel free to send anything in. Wait a couple of seconds there. If not, feel free to chip in anytime I’ll hand over to Chris. Thanks very much, Jesse. Yeah, just a

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note to say do feel free to use the chat feature as part of our webinar. We can see what you type, so I’m going to have to take questions as we go along. Now, as part of this exciting launch of new booster sets, we’re actually launching a new range of pumps which is sort of

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specific to go in into this booster set and we’re gonna show you a little video to start off with. So, I’m just going to load them up now. This just gives you a bit of a flavour and overview of the quality of the pumps that are being installed into the VT booster set. So, let’s play a video.

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So, the vertical multistage pumps that are as part of the VC package. I’ll just run you through a few features of them. They’re fully WRAS approved, all the wet parts are AISI 304 stainless steel, so they’re high quality. Some other manufacturers

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started using more plastics in drinking water pumps, we’ve stuck with full stainless steel construction. They can be fully serviced at any special tools, which you know from a practical perspective on-site when something needs to be done to these

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parties, it’s always the case that if a special tool is required, it’s often not held on-site. So it always results in a delay to something getting serviced, so the fact that these pumps can be serviced without any special tools is a really key feature, and something

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that I would if you’re a specifier I would consider soft incorporating into your specifications, because it just makes the maintenance process much, much quicker and especially in the case of a breakdown. The mechanical seals are standard Eagle Burgmann seals. Now, what that

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basically means in practice is that you don’t need to purchase them from Dutypoint, so you’re not sort of tied to Dutypoint as a spares supplier, which means you’ve got a lot more flexibility over the lifetime of the products when it comes to replacement parts, and the pumps are also

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compatible with standard electric motors. So, with a loss of vertical multistage pumps they have to be paired with specific electric motors which have sort of integrated bearings, that’s not the case here. So actually, again, when it comes to sort of maintenance or breakdowns, you have a

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a lot more flexibility to purchase just a standard electric motor from the open market. They’re actually AEG motors, so no big global manufacturer, and they’re sixty Hertz motors are standard which gives you much wider performance ranges compared to the 50 Hertz

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motors, and they’re really well manufactured products using lots of advanced technologies like laser welding, which just save on components, save on kind of component wastage and just make for a very efficient product. They’ve got oversized ball bearings

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which means the sort of vibrations that are sort of created by the pump moving less than they would be otherwise. A tungsten carbide shaft bearing which is something that’s fairly common to high quality vertical multistage pumps, but certainly is not always the case. Silicon carbide

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graphite mechanical seal which improves self lubrication compared to most pumps which are silicon carbide only, and impeller is a balance design which reduces axial thrust, which prolongs the life of the pump overall. Now, I’m gonna hand you back over to Jesse who’s going to run

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you through the Dutypoint Smart Control Panel. Perfect, thanks Chris. So, the Dutypoint Smart Control Panel. This has been the first time this has been incorporated now in any range of our product before. So as alluded to before, centralised controls, everything in one place for the ease of use. A

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real unified to control if you like, no motor mounted inverters all in one place. Simple and intuitive controls via the HMI touch screen controller there. I’ll show you some screenshots in a second, but the fault measures messages etc and all the other texts on there is very

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simple language and easy to understand. There’s a clear display of system operation as well on the home screen and elsewhere in the program, so you can see everything you need to about your system at a glance if you like. You haven’t got a to crouch down and try and see the

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pressure gauge or or whatever to see what the pressure is doing. It’s all in one place, just where you need it. It’s got a handoff auto capability, so this is obviously great for emergency situations, but this is going above and beyond standard hand off auto

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switches. You’re actually able to set the speed of the pump on the manual setting, so much more adjustability there, and then it’s also got four BMS connectivity and that’s Modbus via ethernet. So, if we just move to the next slide we can see a

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snapshot of the home screen there, so you can easily see the actual pressure, the actual pump speed, and then the set pressure which, again, is easily adjustable. You’ve got the tabs down the side, you can navigate to other parts of the program. Again, very simple

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language. You know we are going, and then any help required you can access that down there too, and then this is a screenshot of the alarms page. So, all faults, nice simple language. Inverter one communications, no pumps available, low water, it makes always good sense so you can get to the source

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of the program quickly and simply. So, this concludes today’s content. Chris and I will stay on for a few minutes now to answer any other questions you might have, but very much appreciate you joining us today, trust it was helpful and informative. If any other questions

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after the session you care for, just drop us a line and we’ll be very happy to help you out. Anything more to add, Chris, before we go offline? No, nothing specifically from me but yeah we will stay on the line for a few minutes after if you do have any questions at all.

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I’d be very happy to answer if you’d like to schedule a meeting with either of us or call or anything then feel free to get in touch with our team and I’ll just put the contact details up, so have a look at our website, www.dutypoint.com

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for more product details. It’s also worth saying that the VT Booster Set is going to actually be available to buy this online very shortly at our e-commerce website direct.dutypoint.com. So, look out for them there, and also just feel free to

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give us a call 01452 300592. If you have any questions at all you can speak to us, speak to one of our team, who will be very happy to assist you.