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CHPCHP, Dalkia & SouthamptonGeneral HospitalFollowing a successful 15-year service delivery at Southampton General Hospital, Dalkia’s CHPcontract has now been extended to increase capability. The new CHP system will further increaseefficiency and meet the needs of the new medical facilities, reports Dalkia. WIP has the story.Southampton General Hospital is theTrust’s largest lmedical facility. The1,000-bed hospital currently providesa number of valuable specialist servicesincluding neurosciences, oncology,pathology and cardiology.Providing the best possible healthcareservice while maintaining complex infrastructuresis a challenge for any hospital.Furthermore, new environmental targetsand energy legislation mean thatresources and often investment are vitalto enable these facilities to benefit frommodern energy efficient technologies.Dalkia, with its 80 years’ experience inproviding energy management to thehealthcare sector now helps more than100 UK hospital sites meet the carbonreduction strategies, reduce costs whiledemonstrating sustainability.The original operating agreement wasfirst enhanced in 2000 when Dalkia built a2MWe CHP-based energy centre with4MWe standby generation for the supplyof steam, hot water and electricity.Southampton Hospital’s new 15-yearcontract will provide a further £2.5millionupgrade and will include 2MWE CHP fromthe specialist CHP division, Cogenco, anda combination waste heat/fired boiler todeliver heating, hot water and electricityto the healthcare establishment.Cogenco currently provides a packagedCHP solution which is designed to match aclient’s site needs.Using dedicated assembly and test facilitiesthe company can deliver and installcomplete systems – providing the advantageof quick delivery and expert installationso that any site can gain the benefitof CHP energy without the problems associatedwith protracted installation.Cogenco’s CHP units are supplied ascomplete solutions incorporating all thenecessary components and controlsystems. These are supplied in an acousticenclosure which can be specified forinternal or external deployment.Installation requires connection to thefuel supply and to the heating andelectricity infrastructures.Cogenco's CHP solutions cover all electricaloutput requirements from 30kW to2MW and beyond with heat outputs from65kW to 2.3MW and are said to be wellsuited for many types of commercial,public sector, industrial and residentialdevelopment.The new agreement also includes theinstallation of a complex low temperaturehot water, LTHW, heat recovery systemthat will effectively utilise the heat producedas a by-product of the generationprocess. Dalkia will provide design andinstallation of the new plant andsubsequent operation and maintenanceand will continue to operate the existingenergy plant on site.WIPInternet linkwww.dalkia.co.uk34M ARCH 2012 • WORLDWIDE I NDEPENDENT P OWER