Free Cooling Systems Belfast & Northern Ireland
BSH Limited designs free cooling and heat-driven absorption chilling within combination fuelled systems, using recoverable heat and ambient conditions for low-carbon cooling.
Free Cooling Systems Belfast reflects BSH Limited's low-carbon cooling capability. BSH designs combination fuelled systems that include heating, cooling, combined heat and power, domestic and control systems, so free cooling is specified as part of the integrated cooling and thermal system that uses recoverable heat and ambient conditions rather than electric compression alone.
The most established free-cooling route in BSH's work is Yazaki absorption chilling — chillers that primarily utilise heat as their main power source, unlike most air conditioning equipment which use electric. BSH has supplied Yazaki absorption chilling for decades and has received awards for creative designs featuring absorption chilling solutions demonstrated to reduce customers' carbon emissions.
Where the free cooling load is part of a combination fuelled system with on-site generation, the waste heat from the generation can drive the absorption chiller, turning what would be rejected heat into cooling. BSH designed and built the largest trigeneration plant room in Europe in 2012, which combined power, heat and cooling in one integrated plant.
Heat-driven absorption chilling
Where a recoverable heat source is available, Yazaki absorption chilling provides cooling using heat as its main power source, unlike most air conditioning equipment which use electric. BSH has supplied Yazaki absorption chilling for decades and has received awards for creative designs featuring absorption chilling solutions demonstrated to reduce customers' carbon emissions.
Recovering heat into cooling
Where the free cooling load is part of a combination fuelled system with on-site generation, the waste heat from the generation can drive the absorption chiller — the trigeneration route, producing electricity, heat and cooling from one fuel input. BSH designed and built the largest trigeneration plant room in Europe in 2012.
Specified within the combination system
BSH can design combination fuelled systems that include heating, cooling, combined heat and power, domestic and control systems. Free cooling is specified within that integrated system, so the cooling load is matched to the available cooling technology — absorption chilling, ambient free cooling, or a combination — and to the site's heat and power rather than in isolation.
Commercial applications
Where this service applies
- Sites with recoverable heat suited to absorption chilling
- Developments combining on-site generation with cooling
- Commercial and industrial buildings seeking low-carbon cooling
- Plant delivered through integrated pre-packaged plantrooms
Benefits & considerations
What to consider
- Yazaki heat-driven absorption chilling for low-carbon cooling
- Waste heat recovered into cooling via trigeneration
- Cooling matched to the site's heat and power rather than electric alone
- Over 50 years of engineering expertise across three generations
Problem · Reaction · Solution
How BSH can help
Problem
Cooling designed as a standalone electric chiller plant can ignore the recoverable heat available on site, buying electricity for compression cooling while heat from generation or process is rejected to atmosphere. Where the cooling is specified separately from the heating, power and controls, the opportunity to drive cooling from waste heat through absorption chilling is missed.
Reaction
Standalone electric cooling raises electricity cost and carbon emissions and forfeits the efficiency available from heat-driven cooling. Commercial and industrial operators need an engineering partner who designs the cooling within the combination fuelled system and assesses whether absorption chilling can use the site's recoverable heat.
Solution
BSH designs free cooling and heat-driven absorption chilling within combination fuelled systems, recovering waste heat into cooling through Yazaki absorption chilling. Because the right free cooling arrangement depends on your heat sources and loads, the next step is to discuss your requirements with BSH's engineers. Contact BSH to discuss your free cooling project.
Questions & answers
Common commercial questions
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