The Hydrogen Office is hotting-up!
6th February 2009
The Hydrogen Office is innovative in every sense, even when it comes down to the heating.
The heat for the building is generated by a heat pump system which takes heat from four boreholes and will deliver heat very efficiently to the building. It is expected that for every unit of electricity used, the system will be able to deliver between four and six units of heat to the building. In addition to this, the heat pump and borehole system will enable the building to benefit from the waste heat produced during the production of hydrogen. The use of boreholes also allows the system to store heat over the summer for the following heating season.
The use of the in wall heating (figures 1 and 2) is an early demonstration in the UK that heat pump technology is not reliant on under floor heating. It also allows the project to demonstrate that heat pumps can also provide an efficient cooling load to buildings as an alternative to air-conditioning.
Figure 1
Figure 2