Power Generation Systems Belfast & Northern Ireland
BSH Limited designs on-site power generation — including combined heat and power and hydrogen-to-power — integrated with heating, cooling and recovery within combination fuelled plantrooms.
Power Generation Systems Belfast reflects BSH Limited's on-site power engineering. BSH designs combination fuelled systems that include heating, cooling, combined heat and power, domestic and control systems, and on-site power generation is the layer that supplies electricity alongside the building's heat and cooling.
On-site power generation — most commonly combined heat and power (CHP) — produces electricity and useful heat from one plant, rather than buying electricity and burning fuel for heat separately. BSH integrates the generation with the building's heating, cooling and recovery through shared controls, so the power, heat and cooling are coordinated rather than independent.
Where on-site power is paired with recovered heat and absorption cooling, the result is trigeneration — power, heat and cooling from one plant. BSH holds the accolade for the largest trigeneration plant room in Europe in 2012, designed and built for Tesco in Naas, Co. Kildare, Ireland.
Generation within combination systems
Power generation is specified as part of combination fuelled systems that include heating, cooling, combined heat and power, domestic and control systems. The generation is sized to the building's power and heat loads, and the controls sequence it so both the electricity and the recovered heat are useful rather than one being wasted.
From CHP to trigeneration
Where the recovered heat from generation drives Yazaki absorption chilling — which primarily utilises heat as its main power source — the scheme becomes trigeneration: power, heat and cooling from one plant. BSH's trigeneration record includes the largest trigeneration plant room in Europe in 2012, designed and built for Tesco in Naas.
Hydrogen-to-power and future fuels
BSH's power generation work also spans future fuels — including hydrogen fuel cells, electrolysers and electrochemical compression — within the same combination-system approach. This lets conventional and zero-emission power generation be engineered through one coherent integration of power, heat, cooling and control.
Commercial applications
Where this service applies
- Sites needing on-site power alongside heating and cooling
- Trigeneration schemes combining power, heat and cooling
- Projects integrating CHP with recovery and absorption chilling
- Zero-emission power generation through hydrogen and fuel cells
Benefits & considerations
What to consider
- Power, heat and cooling coordinated through one combination system
- Recovered generation heat can drive absorption cooling (trigeneration)
- Hydrogen-to-power and future fuels within the same approach
- Over 50 years of engineering expertise across three generations
Problem · Reaction · Solution
How BSH can help
Problem
Generating electricity on site while buying fuel separately for heat, and treating cooling as a third independent service, wastes the heat the generation produces and runs the services against each other. Without integrating power, heat and cooling through shared controls, the on-site generation sells or rejects its heat and the building pays for the heat and cooling it could have recovered.
Reaction
Unintegrated on-site power raises running costs and carbon emissions, and forgoes the trigeneration available from recovered heat. Building owners and consultants need a specialist who designs the power generation with the heating, cooling and recovery as one combination system.
Solution
BSH designs on-site power generation — including CHP and hydrogen-to-power — integrated with heating, cooling and recovery within combination fuelled plantrooms. Because the right generation depends on your power and heat loads, the next step is to discuss your requirements with BSH's engineers. Contact BSH to discuss your power generation systems project.
Questions & answers
Common commercial questions
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