Cogeneration Engineering Belfast & Northern Ireland
BSH Limited engineers cogeneration (CHP) plant that integrates on-site electricity generation with heat recovery through combination fuelled systems.
Cogeneration Engineering Belfast reflects BSH Limited's engineering of cogeneration — combined heat and power — across commercial and industrial buildings. BSH designs combination fuelled systems that include heating, cooling, combined heat and power, domestic and control systems, and cogeneration is the on-site generation of electricity with the heat produced captured and used rather than wasted.
A cogeneration plant only saves energy when its electricity and heat are both useful at once, so BSH sizes the plant against the building's simultaneous heat and power demand rather than for electrical output alone. That sizing is what makes the plant run usefully loaded and the recovered heat actually used, which is what delivers the efficiency rather than the generator simply running.
BSH holds the accolade for the largest trigeneration plant room in Europe in 2012, designed and built for Tesco in Naas, Co. Kildare, Ireland — trigeneration being the extension of cogeneration to include cooling — reflecting the depth behind the cogeneration engineering. Where the plant is delivered through a pre-packaged plantroom, the generation, heat recovery, pumps, distribution and controls are assembled and inspected off site before delivery.
Power and heat from one fuel source
Cogeneration generates electricity on site and captures the heat produced for space heating, hot water or process loads, so both outputs come from one fuel source. Because BSH designs combination fuelled systems that include heating, cooling and combined heat and power, the cogeneration is integrated with the heating and cooling it serves rather than running as a standalone generator.
Sized against simultaneous loads
A cogeneration plant only saves energy when its electricity and heat are both useful at once, so BSH sizes the plant against the building's simultaneous heat and power demand rather than for electrical output alone. The plant runs usefully loaded and the recovered heat is actually used, which is what delivers the efficiency rather than the generator simply running.
Trigeneration as the extension
Where a simultaneous cooling demand exists, the cogeneration can be extended to trigeneration — combined cooling heat and power — with the recovered heat driving absorption chilling for the cooling load. BSH holds the accolade for the largest trigeneration plant room in Europe in 2012, designed and built for Tesco in Naas, Co. Kildare, Ireland, reflecting the depth behind that integrated approach.
Commercial applications
Where this service applies
- Commercial and industrial buildings with a simultaneous heat and power demand
- Sites using recovered heat for heating, hot water or process loads
- Developments extending cogeneration to trigeneration with absorption chilling
- Projects delivered through a pre-packaged plantroom
Benefits & considerations
What to consider
- Electricity and heat from one fuel source
- Plant sized against simultaneous heat and power demand
- Trigeneration extension with absorption chilling
- Over 50 years of engineering expertise across three generations
Problem · Reaction · Solution
How BSH can help
Problem
A cogeneration plant sized for electrical output alone — without a use for its recovered heat — vents the heat it produces and loses the efficiency the installation was meant to deliver. Where the cogeneration is split from the heating and cooling it could serve, the integration that makes cogeneration worthwhile is lost at the interface.
Reaction
Unintegrated cogeneration wastes recovered heat, raises running cost, and can leave a building with a generator that runs inefficiently because it was sized for power alone. Consultants and facilities managers need an engineering partner who designs the cogeneration as part of a combination fuelled system, using the recovered heat for heating or cooling.
Solution
BSH engineers cogeneration (CHP) plant that integrates on-site electricity generation with heat recovery through combination fuelled systems. Because the right cogeneration depends on your simultaneous loads, the next step is to discuss your requirements with BSH's engineers. Contact BSH to discuss your cogeneration engineering project.
Questions & answers
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