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Menchaca installs isothermal blankets in the pools of the Centre for training of high level of Tenerife

22/07/2008

July 22, 2008

The Menchaca company has installed two new isothermal blankets of the Poolcover model in both pools of the Centre for training of high level 'Tenerife top training-t3 athletic sphere', located in the fishing town of La Caleta, in the famous Costa Adeje in the South of the Canary Islands.

The sports complex, intended to serve not only to professionals but also to fans, has its hub in an area called 'Athletic Aqua Center', a place where there is one of the most modern hydrodynamic channels of the world and two swimming pools that you have installed the insulated coversone Olympic-size and one for the training of 25 meters.

The two pools will cover vessels with the Poolcover model.

As laid down in the new RITE, the use of mechanisms that maximize energy efficiency is an element required given the characteristics of the water facilities of this complex. In the words of Carlos Paulsen, director of the campus, the main reason which led to the installation of Poolcover Menchaca blankets is "primarily in energy saving, and to keep the pool clean of dust and other elements, also resulting in savings".

Among the most immediate advantages, Paulsen aims with this system will "have the temperature of the water to the need to since the early hours of the morning, with the consequent energy saving" and in addition to the advantage of "to offer a better service to users of the swimming pools and our swimmers". On the same line adds that "if we believe that our business is the swimming pool and is where more energy can be lost, what we seek is to save on all kinds of electrical and heat energy." "With isothermal blankets we have one right answer". For the director of this Center, Menchaca, SA "was the only manufacturer that offered a blanket that is adapted to our needs energy and size".

One of the greatest advantages is the energy savings achieved.

The covers installed in 'Tenerife top training-t3 athletic sphere' are very large. For the Olympic pool, Menchaca technicians have placed two blankets in line, each with a 50 m from Lake measures 12.5 wide, that manage to cover the entire surface of water. In the case of the training, being smaller, they has been enough with a single Spinner's 25 x 12, 5 m.
Given these dimensions, collection and extension is performed by a system of watertight reducing engines, with an index of protection IP-54 and automatic stop.
Next to the edge of the large swimming pool have been placed three carriers, and two in the small, which bear the weight of the axles of 12.5 meters in length to the ground from 3 to 4 meters tall. At the start the engines these shafts rotate on their own and make that the covers were enrollen and desenrollen along the glass of the swimming pool.

Isothermal blankets Poolcover Menchaca are coated with a layer of polyester which gives them a great strength and durability, so they are suitable both for internal or external use, and any time of the year. Its effective barrier thermal, composed of a triple-layer fabric, avoids the cooling of the water and its evaporation with which significantly lowers the amount of heat that is necessary to pass on to maintain the swimming in margins suitable for use.