Can you recirc the water, or install a temp sensor to dump water above a set temp?  



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> Subject: [SAFETY] 90 Degree Emergency Shower and Eye Wash
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> Date: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 11:25 AM
> Help!
> 
>  
> 
> We have an emergency shower and eye wash in our boiler
> building.  The
> pipe to the emergency shower and eye-wash runs through
> inside the boiler
> room where the shower and eye-wash are needed.  During
> the winter it is
> not a problem; but in the summer when the outside temp is
> warm the
> inside temperature of the boiler room gets pretty
> hot.  This heats the
> pipes which warms the water to 90 degrees.  After
> three minutes of the
> water running, the temperature lowers to a much cooler
> temp.  Of course
> the choice is then 90 degree wash and eye flush for three
> minutes or a
> delay of three minutes.
> 
>  
> 
> We cannot re-route the pipes.  The walls are cinder
> block.  Locating the
> pipes outside would not work due to winter freezing. 
> We need the shower
> and eye-wash unit in the boiler room due to the caustic
> chemicals used
> in the boilers.
> 
>  
> 
> So:
> 
>  
> 
> Problems with the temperature?
> 
>  
> 
> Problems with the three minute delay in running the water
> to cool it?
> 
>  
> 
> Realistic solutions?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks in advance to all responses!!
> 
>  
> 
> Mike Threlfall
> 
> Safety Coordinator
> 
> City of Spokane
> 
>  
> 
> "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of
> being a man."
> 
> Samuel Johnson/Hunter S. Thompson
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