Following the success of HEI Dublin last year, the organisers have made it a two day event this year. It will be held the 7th and 8th of May at the RDS in Dublin. This healthcare event is extremely important seeing as the sector employs over 67,000 people and accounts for approximately 70% of all the healthcare in the Republic of Ireland.
Clarke Energy has supplied 92.62MW of combined heat and power (CHP) plants working on natural gas, to hospital institutions. In a CHP configuration, the electricity is being used for power purposes, whereas the excess heat from this process can be used for heating the local area. Another configuration interesting for hospitals, is trigeneration. This includes the electricity and heat from the CHP engine, but also produces cold water, using an absorption chiller. It could be then used for air-conditioning or refrigeration. Especially in healthcare situations it is of utmost importance that power shortages do not occur and power generation keeps going, self-generation with CHP engines can help deliver reliability of supply. Healthcare environments are mostly high energy consumers. Improving the efficiency in these sectors, could have great beneficial effects.
If you want to find out more about meeting Clarke Energy at HEI Dublin 2014, please get in touch with us at ireland@clarke-energy.co.uk.
