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New heat pump to cut costs and carbon at hospital
Staff at a Mansfield hospital hope to cut their carbon footprint and slash thousands off annual heating bills with a new ground-source heat pump.
The renewable energy source is intended to provide cooling technology at Kings Mill Hospital, as well as provide supplementary low-grade heating to a gas-fired boiler installation when cooling demand is low.
Representatives for the hospital predicted that the heat pump installation would "set a benchmark" for the NHS, changing the way in which hospitals will be cooled and heated in the future.
Patrick Sherriff, sales and marketing director for installer Geothermal International, noted that the possibilities presented by heat pump technology are getting "more and more attention".
"Renewable ground-source heat pump systems have been used very successfully throughout Europe and North America for decades, and now the UK and Ireland are sitting up and taking notice," he added.
The system will use a network of heat exchangers connected via pipes to the hospital, where heat pumps will extract or reject heat from a reservoir to provide either cooling or heating.
Sent: 07/04/2008
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