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 | | CLYDE HEAT PUMP KEEPS NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE IN HOT WATER | | | Clyde | | 05/09/2007 | | | A CVT air source heat pump supplied by Clyde Energy Solutions is helping to provide sustainable hot water for a neighbourhood centre in South East London. The new North Cray Neighbourhood Centre, which opened in February 2007, is home to a wide variety of organisations and activities including boxing and karate clubs, line dancing classes, a nursery and a day centre, as well as being the base for the Cray Meadows Safer Neighbourhoods Policing Team. To meet the various needs of these groups the Clyde CVT system is providing hot water for a catering-sized kitchen, washrooms and male, female and disabled showering facilities.
A CVT air source heat pump supplied by Clyde Energy Solutions is helping to provide sustainable hot water for a neighbourhood centre in South East London.
The new North Cray Neighbourhood Centre, which opened in February 2007, is home to a wide variety of organisations and activities including boxing and karate clubs, line dancing classes, a nursery and a day centre, as well as being the base for the Cray Meadows Safer Neighbourhoods Policing Team. To meet the various needs of these groups the Clyde CVT system is providing hot water for a catering-sized kitchen, washrooms and male, female and disabled showering facilities.
The Clyde CVT saves a significant amount of energy by pre-heating potable water with low grade heat from the external air before it is brought up to the final delivery temperature by heat from the main boiler. This is what Clyde terms a ‘bivalent’ approach and is often the most energy-efficient and cost-effective way to take advantage of heat pump technology.
The Clyde CVT Cabinet heat pump provides a way of concentrating low grade heat and works like a refrigerator in reverse. It takes ‘free heat’ from the outside air and uses this to heat up the water. The only energy requirement is for a small electric pump and compressor, which extract around three units of thermal energy from the air for every unit of electrical energy used.
The hot water is stored in a 270 litre enamel-lined calorifier which incorporates two auxillary heating coils to supplement the output from the heat pump. In this case one of the coils uses heat from the Centre’s main boiler to top up the heat pump. The second coil is not currently used, but it is envisaged that it might be connected to a solar heating system at some point in the future.
The CVT unit has a compact design and is housed in an attractive matt aluminium jacket so can be sited anywhere in a building. And as Martin Burton of design and installation contractors HW Sladden Commercial Ltd confirms, “It is an easy to install and very adaptable product providing virtually free hot water.”
Using the Clyde heat pump helps the building meet the requirements of Part L of the Building Regulations and is also in line with Bexley Council’s long term sustainability objectives. Bexley is one of the very few London boroughs to be accredited by Institute of Energy for its high standards in the management and use of energy and is committed to reducing the consumption of fossil fuels and promoting renewable energy sources in its buildings.
Jeremy Arliss, Managing Director of Clyde Energy Solutions says, “The drive throughout central and local government is to lead by example in increasing the energy efficiency of buildings and reducing carbon footprint. Recognising this growing demand for environmentally sensitive approaches to heating and hot water requirements for public buildings Clyde has developed a range of sustainable energy solutions using products such as air-source and geothermal heat pump systems backed up by the knowledge on how best to apply them.”
Building on over 85 years’ expertise in the supply and support of boilers, radiators and heating systems for commercial customers, Clyde Energy Solutions is now complementing these products with sustainable energy systems. As a result of this wider focus Clyde has been restructured into six divisions: Boilers, Radiators, Sustainable Energy, Hot Water Systems, Technical Services, and Consulting. | |
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