Micro CHP boiler: heating, hot water and electricity
Dutch / British EngineeringMicro CHP boiler: heating, hot water and electricity.
It won't be long before households can generate their own electricity. The media is already devoting enormous attention to the development of a new generation of central heating boilers that, in addition to heating and hot water, also supply electricity. These are known as micro CHP boilers.
Broag-Remeha is the UK operation of Remeha, the Dutch based boiler manufacturer who are a front runner in innovative heating technology and at an advanced stage of development with the micro CHP boiler.
The benefits of these new generation central heating boilers are:
Generating electricity at home will mean an enormous saving on a household's total energy bill. This saving is expected to be between ¤300 and ¤400 a year.
Just as importantly, the micro CHP boiler also makes a significant environmental contribution. Since less electricity needs to be generated centrally, it is anticipated that the micro CHP boiler will result in a 60% reduction in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions on each produced kWh.
Technical Home Services Ltd install Broag-Remeha boilers and are approved technical engineers carring out service, repair and warranty work for them As soon as these CHP boilers are available, we will be offering these to our customers.
About the micro CHP boiler
The basic principle of the micro CHP boiler (high efficiency central heating combined with electricity generation) is micro combined heat and power (micro CHP). With this combination, heating and electricity are generated at the same time with minimum energy loss.
The micro CHP boiler from Remeha consists of a high-performance boiler and a small (Stirling) natural gas engine. The engine powers a generator that produces electricity, which can then be used in the home for anything that operates using electricity. Any surplus electricity is returned to the grid through the plug and socket.
With micro CHP, scarcely any electricity is lost, as the residual heat of the engine is used efficiently for central heating and producing hot water. Should at a certain point more heat be required than the natural gas motor is able to produce, the high-performance boiler steps in temporarily.
The Stirling engine is named after the Scottish reverend Robert Stirling, who built the first model at the start of the nineteenth century. It works on the principle that hot gas expands and cold gas contracts. By allowing a gas in the engine to expand (due to heat) and contract (due to cooling) in turn, a piston is moved up and down in a magnetic field of fixed magnets. The alternating magnetization causes a current in the electrical coil around the cylinder with which alternating current is generated. |
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