Vivari Hotel & Spa
Krugersdorp
The Vivari Hotel & Spa is situated in the Featherbrooke area within Krugersdorp City. An existing Guest House was revamped into a luxurious Hotel and Spa.
FACTS AND FIGURES
The Hotel has a forty-eight (48) room capacity. Each room requires 120 litres of hot water heated at 55 degrees.
The hotel features three buildings for accommodation, a restaurant and spa for were hot water generation, storage and distribution are required.
CUSTOMER NEED
SOLASMART's scope was to supply, deliver, rigging, installation, and connection of Solar Thermal and Heat Pump generation solutions for the various hot water plants, as well as the pipe reticulation of incoming water lines, the tanks, the inline heaters, tempering valve and hot water return lines within the hot water plants and areas that require hot water generation.
Hotels are subject to high hot water demand during peak hours. It was therefore important that a sufficient volume of hot water was generated and available to the hotel guests while still being cost-effective and environmentally sensitive.
SOLUTION
For the Hotel's hot water generation, storage and distribution, the plant rooms were equipped with the following:
# Building One - with storage of two (2) by 750Lt Tanks, primary hot water generation supplied by a Solar Thermal Solution with two (2) by seven (7) Collector Banks with a total aperture of 25.2 square meters, secondary hot water generation supplied by two (2) by 10.6kW Air to Water Heat Pumps and as backup an Electrical Inline Heater with a total load of 12kW.
# Building Two - with storage of two (2) by 400Lt Tanks, primary hot water generation supplied by a Solar Thermal Solution with two (2) by five (5) Collector Banks with a total aperture of 17 square meters, secondary hot water generation supplied by two (2) by 6.5kW Air to Water Heat Pumps and as backup an Electrical Inline Heater with a total load of 9kW.
# Building Three - with storage of two (2) by 1200Lt Tanks, primary hot water generation supplied by a Solar Thermal Solution with three (3) by six (6) Collector Banks with a total aperture of 32.4 square meters, secondary hot water generation supplied by three (3) by 10.6kW Air to Water Heat Pumps and as backup an Electrical Inline Heater with a total load of 18kW.
# Restaurant - with storage of one (1) by 300Lt Tank, primary hot water generation supplied by a Solar Thermal Solution with one (1) by two (2) Collector Bank with a total aperture of 3.6 square meters, secondary hot water generation supplied by one (1) by 6.5kW Air to Water Heat Pump and as backup an Electrical Element with a total load of 3kW.
# Spa - with one (1) by 200Lt Thermosiphon System, with one (1) Collector with a total aperture of 2.1 square meters and as backup an Electrical Element with a total load of 2kW.