New Build Gas Supply

monkapotamus

monkapotamus

We are finally due to get a new building in a couple of years and have been told there will be no natural gas supply and the labs will probably have some kind of bottled gas system, which seems as though it will be a ridiculously expensive way to go, has anybody who has had a recent new building had this kind of issue?
 
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The Geoff

We're going through the same issue, new build ongoing but they wanted to be completely fossil free and have us using electric bunsens. We worked out the cost to buy them in, run them, and regularly replace them, plus the electrical draw if multiple classes were using them at the same time. The powers that be changed their mind. We don't yet know whether it'll be little gas bottles in the labs (as you say, an expensive way to do it), or our current setup, a bulk LPG tank. The bulk LPG option works well (we're too far north for mains gas), it just means we need to order slightly different bunsens.
 
Fallout_Girl

Fallout_Girl

We're due a new build in the next few years and they wanted to do the same thing for us. We pushed back on it saying it wasn't cost effective and in some case not practical. We raised the fact that the bunsens for bottled gas were expensive and not suitable for some of the activities we do, and we had loads of lab equipment here that we could take with us at no cost.
We haven't heard back yet, but they seemed to take what we said on board and will hopefully change the plan.
 
Wobbly John

Wobbly John

The Geoff said:
We're going through the same issue, new build ongoing but they wanted to be completely fossil free and have us using electric bunsens. We worked out the cost to buy them in, run them, and regularly replace them, plus the electrical draw if multiple classes were using them at the same time. The powers that be changed their mind. We don't yet know whether it'll be little gas bottles in the labs (as you say, an expensive way to do it), or our current setup, a bulk LPG tank. The bulk LPG option works well (we're too far north for mains gas), it just means we need to order slightly different bunsens.
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If by 'little gas bottles' you mean LPG cylinders of a few kg, you won't be able to keep these in the lab - they'll need to be outside.
We have a couple of labs on 47KG LPG cyclinders and they are in an ajoining garden of a house owned by the school (was the deputy heads' accomodation) because it was against regs to house them in the building.
 
Peter Sigsworth

Peter Sigsworth

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monkapotamus said:
We are finally due to get a new building in a couple of years and have been told there will be no natural gas supply and the labs will probably have some kind of bottled gas system, which seems as though it will be a ridiculously expensive way to go, has anybody who has had a recent new building had this kind of issue?
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My last school was out in the sticks and had always used bottle gas - the orange propane gas cylinders outside the labs. Nor expensive and works fine.
Of course, there is always an LPG tank as well.
 
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