Canadian pool complex makes major cost savings with Hyprolyser®

YMCA Calgary is a vibrant charity supporting local communities with many programs and services to help Calgarians connect, build life-long skills, and keep active and healthy.

With six busy aquatics centres in operation, the costs to service and maintain can be costly.  And with a philosophy to prioritise community and wellbeing, it is important to the YMCA that they are employing the very best technologies while keeping costs to a minimum.

At one of the centres, the 15-year-old multi-cell in-line salt chlorination system was due for replacement. To maintain correct chlorination levels, the design of this system requires that salt is added to the pool daily or weekly; salt that is often lost when backwashing pool sand filters. A lot of salt and water are therefore wasted to drain and you need to buy and store more salt to ensure the system is running effectively. An inefficient use of salt and making the system more costly to run.

The YMCA was intrigued by the simplicity of the system and excited to embrace this sustainable, easy to operate and cost-effective solution to pool water disinfection.

A Hyprolyser^® Standard 560 system was installed to provide up to 13kg w/w chlorine per day of on-site generated sodium hypochlorite solution at <1% strength. This is well below the hazardous categorization level for the storage and production of liquid chlorine.

With the site staff quickly adapting to the Hyprolyser’s^® simple routine maintenance tasks, the pool’s management are set to enjoy long-term cost savings and reliable performance, backed by a 5-year limited Hyprolyser^® warranty, with a typical 7-9 year electrolyser life expectancy. The Hyprolyser^® Standard 560 electrochlorination system continues to perform well and is on-target to create the $120,000 CDN savings over the initial 8-year operation period.

A spokesperson from Pinnacle Aquatic Group commented:

And what does the customer think?

“It was quite remarkable in the sense that it’s not common to install a relatively new piece of machinery that has some degree of complexity to it, and thereafter not receive any further questions or have any potential issues with it for a long time.  It just works and there are no issues or complications, so no need for the customer to get in touch.

We didn’t and still don’t hear a lot from the operators that have them. It was almost unnerving at first, because usually when you install a new controller for example people ask how does it work, how do I do this? How do I do that? What should I adjust? With the Hyprolyser® it’s essentially like you just put it in and walk away. And that’s an amazing achievement for this type of equipment.

We service the units annually with no issues. Everything has components that fail eventually and need replacing, so we follow the service schedule laid out by Gaffey. The operators are able to perform the weekly and monthly checks.

Compared to the previous system, which was a side stream salt chlorination system, you’d always be taking it apart, cleaning the scale from the cells. The power supply boards would also burn out on a regular basis. So our maintenance now is a fraction of what it used to be in comparison.

The customer is enjoying all the plus points, not having to transport or store dangerous chemicals, hazard-free easy operation, less maintenance, the feedback is all very good.”

To find out how much you could benefit from a Hyprolyser® system, contact the team at Gaffey today.