District Heating CHP Belfast & Northern Ireland
BSH Limited designs district heating with combined heat and power, distributing recovered heat to multiple buildings through pre-packaged plantrooms and combination fuelled systems.
District Heating CHP Belfast reflects BSH Limited's approach to distributing heat from combined heat and power to more than one building. BSH designs combination fuelled systems that include heating, cooling, combined heat and power, domestic and control systems, and district heating CHP is the extension of that to a network — the CHP's recovered heat distributed to multiple buildings rather than used in one.
District heating CHP generates electricity on site and captures the heat produced, then distributes that recovered heat to multiple buildings through a heat network. Because the heat is used across the network rather than wasted, the CHP runs usefully loaded and the recovered heat serves the combined demand of the buildings rather than a single 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 scale of the combination fuelled systems that district heating CHP builds on.
Recovered heat distributed to multiple buildings
District heating CHP captures the heat produced during on-site generation and distributes it to multiple buildings through a heat network, so the recovered heat serves the combined demand rather than a single load. Because the heat is used across the network rather than wasted, the CHP runs usefully loaded — which is what delivers the efficiency rather than the generator simply running.
Sized against the network's demand
District heating CHP is sized against the combined heat and power demand of the buildings on the network rather than for a single building. BSH sizes the CHP against the network's load profile — operating hours, base load and the use for the recovered heat — so the generation runs usefully loaded and the heat network carries the recovered heat to where it is needed.
Delivered through plantrooms
Where the district heating CHP is delivered through a pre-packaged plantroom, the generation, pumps, heat distribution and controls are assembled and inspected off site before delivery as a plug and power solution. That keeps the CHP integrated with the heat network from the outset, with the largest plug and power plantroom in terms of power at 1.4Mw thermal.
Commercial applications
Where this service applies
- Developments distributing recovered heat to multiple buildings
- District heating networks with on-site generation
- Projects extending CHP to trigeneration through absorption chilling
- Networks delivered through a pre-packaged plantroom
Benefits & considerations
What to consider
- Recovered heat distributed to multiple buildings rather than wasted
- CHP sized against the network's combined demand
- Heat network integrated with the generation from the outset
- Over 50 years of engineering expertise across three generations
Problem · Reaction · Solution
How BSH can help
Problem
A development where each building generates its own heat and buys grid electricity wastes the heat released during power generation and pays twice for what one district heating CHP could supply. CHP installed for a single building, without a network to use the recovered heat, runs part-loaded or vents the heat it captures, so the efficiency the installation was meant to deliver never appears.
Reaction
Splitting generation and heating across a development raises running cost and carbon, and can leave buildings with generators that vent their recovered heat. Developers and consultants need an engineering partner who designs the district heating CHP as one system, sizing the generation against the network's combined demand.
Solution
BSH designs district heating with combined heat and power, distributing recovered heat to multiple buildings through pre-packaged plantrooms and combination fuelled systems. Because the right district heating CHP depends on your network, the next step is to discuss your requirements with BSH's engineers. Contact BSH to discuss your district heating CHP project.
Questions & answers
Common commercial questions
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