Important information on planning and operation
VITOBLOC 200 EM-401/549 / EM-363/498 ESS Energie Systeme & Service GmbH 33
5414 733 09/2009
5 Important information on planning and operation
5.1 Malfunctions
Malfunctions or consequential damage due to
unacceptable operating conditions are neither
covered by the warranty nor any service contract.
Your operational safety will be boosted if you comply
with the items below:
Design
● avoid clocking on-off operation and provide buffer
memory.
The ratio of operating hours to starts has to be at
least greater that 2 (in other words, at least two
hours of operation per start). The larger the ratio of
operating hours: starts, the better.
Installation space
● Provide exhaust gas and exhaust air dampers in
sound-critical objects and always allow for elastic
connections (i.e., compensators).
● Make sure that the exhaust gas and exhaust air
lines are correctly dimensioned and conducted
(because of pressure losses, rated widths and flow
roaring).
● Make sure that it is installed on the loosely
supplied Sylomer strips for structure-borne noise
decoupling.
● Do not install in the same room as a NH3
refrigerating machine.
Heating
● guarantee constants and sufficient heating water
volume flow
● prevent emergency shutdown due to excessive
heating water return temperatures The hot water
return temperature may not be in excess of 65° C
either in stand-by operation or in parallel operation.
● Any return temperature increasing mechanism
should be installed as near to the cogeneration
module as possible.
● Provide optional heat quantity meters in the return
temperature increasing mechanism to ascertain the
heat energy generated.
● The stand-by operation function does not apply in
connection with operating an absorption
refrigerating machine.
Exhaust gas
● Sufficiently dimension the exhaust gas cross-
section (no more than 10 m/s of the flow speed).
● Use a suitable qualification approval exhaust gas
pipe (with a wall thickness of at least 1 mm made
of stainless steel and connections pressureresistant to pulsation to 4,000 Pa).
● Free drainage should be provided for the
condensate water with at least a 3% inclination
over the siphon (U pipe) at a height of
approximately 150 mm for keeping exhaust gas
from escaping from the condensate water drain.
Ventilation
● Provide cooling and combustion air that is not
preheated and free of dust/halogen.
● Provide sufficient fresh air supply and reliably carry
off warm exhaust air.
● Provide separate air inlet suction in the swimming
pool (if the air contains chlorine).
Fuel
● Maintain gas flow pressure of 25-50 mbar and a
methane number ≥ 80.
● Overdimension the inlet as a pressure buffer.
● Optional gas quantity meters generally measure
the operational cubic meters. These readings
should be converted into normal cubic meters (z
Number) in accordance with the guidelines of
DVGW-TRGI G 600.
Electro
● The block-type thermal power plant generates
electric power at 400 V. For reasons of safety, it
has sensitive electrical nozzle protection
equipment that reacts to asynchronous network
loads in the customer’s network in accordance with
the regulations. Safety shutdowns are not a
malfunction of the block-type thermal power plant.
● If the electrical loads in stand-by operation are
incorrectly dimensioned, this may cause
emergency shutdown due to overloading (inductive
or capacitive starting currents are as much as 20
times the rated current, which can overload the
block-type thermal power plant).
● Always avoid shutting down under full load since
the component parts are subject to maximum
mechanical loads.
● The cogeneration modules have to be connected
to the equipotential bonding rail provided by the
customer via an earthing cable.
Service + Operating resources
● regular service and care by qualified personnel.
We recommend signing a service contract.
● Clean up drip leaks, dispose of old oil correctly and
regularly check the exhaust gas condensate lines
to see if they are in good working order.
● Disconnect the batteries if there are longer
interruptions to operations when shutting down the
module and preserve the module when it is shut
down for longer than 24 hours.