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CHP-based system to bring significant savings at Good Hope

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Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust now has a successful carbon and energy saving scheme in operation at Good Hope Hospital in the West Midlands, with a combined heat and power (CHP) system as its focal point.

Good Hope Hospital is a 600-bed acute and general hospital in Sutton Coldfield. With a 35-year-old energy centre, the hospital was in need of a new facility to improve its carbon and energy performance. Staff chose Dalkia for a self-funding solution ‘with guaranteed performance over the contract term’.

The 15-year, £5.4 million contract has seen the healthcare facility’s energy plant upgraded with a new CHP unit that Cogenco, Dalkia’s packaged CHP subsidiary, says will cut yearly CO2 emissions by 2,692 tonnes, bringing ‘guaranteed savings’ of £477,000 per annum, and a further £42,700 in operational savings.

The installation at Good Hope Hospital comprises a 1,166 kWe CHP plant from Cogenco, a 5,000 kg/hour fired 820 kg/hour waste heat combination boiler, a CHP heat recovery system, and associated infrastructure, including a complete upgrade of the burner controls for two existing boilers.

Annually, the CHP engine unit will provide 9,400 MW/hour of electricity and 9,100 MW/hour of heat, using natural gas as a primary fuel source. The heat produced as a result of the electrical generation process is recovered by the CHP system and conducted to the new waste heat boiler, where it is used to produce steam and low temperature hot water for heating and domestic hot water top-ups.

Cogenco Ltd 
Parsonage Farm Business Park 
Parsonage Way, 
Horsham 
West Sussex 
RH12 4AL 
Tel: 01403 272270 
Email: info@cogenco.com www.cogenco.co.uk

 

 

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