The UK’s healthcare sector spends more than £400 million every year on energy, although a large proportion of this energy is often wasted.
So says ICS Cool Energy, which points out that creating a comfortable environment for patients and staff, ‘generates the highest energy demand’, with heating and cooling utilised all year round. As a temperature control specialist, the company is dedicated to reducing carbon emissions, and offers energy and cost-saving solutions with its latest range of heating and cooling products:
Free Cooling
The company said: “Free Cooling is a fast and effective, economic method of utilising low external air temperatures. It can be used all year round, making the most of the UK’s naturally low external air temperatures, to assist in cooling water for industrial temperature control applications, or in HVAC systems. When outside air is cold enough, free cooling chiller systems can reduce their power load to half, or completely switch off, which means natural air is then used to cool the building, cutting energy costs.
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Turbocor Technology
Turbocor chillers feature centrifugal compressors which work using digital rotor speed control and magnetic levitation, allowing for high partial load efficiencies to be achieved. European Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratios (ESEER) are reportedly up to 40 per cent lower compared with standard scroll and screw compressor units, thanks to ‘highly efficient components’ including EC (electronic commutation) fans, DC brushless motors, and electronic expansion valves. Benefits of a Turbocor chiller to a hospital, ICS Cool Energy maintains, include ‘outstanding efficiencies at part loads, perfect temperature and humidity control, super silent operation, low in-rush currents, and simplified logistics’. Furthermore, these units can be integrated into a building’s existing ventilation system to maintain maximum comfort for all users.
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Heat recovery
Heat recovery is the re-use of waste heat from a process that would otherwise have been lost. Buildings which use energy for heating, cooling, ventilation, or any type of industrial process, can benefit from heat recovery systems. Recovered heat can be used for a variety of applications, including power generation, space heating, hot water generation, and other industrial process heating. ICS added: “Many temperature control units offer partial or total heat recovery, which can generate energy savings of up to 45 per cent.”
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Heat pumps
Heat pumps absorb heat from natural sources including air, ground, and water, potentially cutting long-term energy costs for any commercial building. Using naturally sourced heat from air, water, and ground sources ensures no repercussions on fossil fuels, directly reducing carbon emissions. ICS Cool Energy said: “Heat pumps are ideal for managing comfortable temperatures, as they provide both heating and cooling, as well as domestic hot water. Seventy-five per cent of the energy used to power heat pumps directly comes from the environment, which means only 25 per cent is from a power supply. This low energy consumption has seen reductions in CO² emissions of up to 60 per cent compared with traditional systems.”
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