TY - GEN
T1 - Hot water systems maintenance in remote communities, Northern Territory
AU - Everett, R.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The harsh hard-water conditions in the remote indigenous communities of the Northern Territory (NT), Australia, make hot water units susceptible to scale accumulation and corrosion. The remote community's need for durable domestic hardware has been an issue that arises in every major indigenous infrastructure program due to the high maintenance costs and low technical trade capacity. Currently, maintenance and replacement of hot water units is done on an ad hoc basis as failure occurs by available tradesmen. To minimise downtime and cost, a structured approach to preventative maintenance and replacement is desirable. Such an approach requires an understanding of each system's cause of failure to determine the appropriate action. This exploratory research presents such a measurement method. The descriptive report looks at evidence of corrosion and residue of each hot water system analysed. This method provides recommendations from a component analysis on material durability versus maintenance costs to provide data supporting maintainability for developing technical trade capacity in the indigenous communities. The results from this study are compared with the relevant existing infrastructure design guidelines for indigenous communities and the Hot Water Trials conducted by the Centre of Appropriate Technology (CAT) in 1997.
AB - The harsh hard-water conditions in the remote indigenous communities of the Northern Territory (NT), Australia, make hot water units susceptible to scale accumulation and corrosion. The remote community's need for durable domestic hardware has been an issue that arises in every major indigenous infrastructure program due to the high maintenance costs and low technical trade capacity. Currently, maintenance and replacement of hot water units is done on an ad hoc basis as failure occurs by available tradesmen. To minimise downtime and cost, a structured approach to preventative maintenance and replacement is desirable. Such an approach requires an understanding of each system's cause of failure to determine the appropriate action. This exploratory research presents such a measurement method. The descriptive report looks at evidence of corrosion and residue of each hot water system analysed. This method provides recommendations from a component analysis on material durability versus maintenance costs to provide data supporting maintainability for developing technical trade capacity in the indigenous communities. The results from this study are compared with the relevant existing infrastructure design guidelines for indigenous communities and the Hot Water Trials conducted by the Centre of Appropriate Technology (CAT) in 1997.
KW - Hard water
KW - Hot water systems
KW - Indigenous communities
KW - Serviceability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84867786845&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference Paper published in Proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:84867786845
SN - 9781617824791
T3 - 50th Annual Conference of the Australasian Corrosion Association 2010: Corrosion and Prevention 2010
SP - 201
EP - 214
BT - 50th Annual Conference of the Australasian Corrosion Association 2010
T2 - 50th Annual Conference of the Australasian Corrosion Association 2010: Corrosion and Prevention 2010
Y2 - 14 November 2010 through 17 November 2010
ER -