Company
Company
Canada’s Old Peel Memorial Hospital in Brampton, Ontario was redeveloped and replaced by the Peel Memorial Centre for Integrated Health and Wellness. As part of the project more energy efficient heating and cooling systems were part of the specifications for the new HVAC infrastructure.
Challenge
The hospital was eager to build on its legacy of clinical excellence but also innovation by emabracing new technolgies and attain Canada’s LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver Status. (LEED is a four-tiered green building rating programme that was introduced in 1994 to encourage and reward sustainable designs).
Solution
Aermec’s NXP simultaneous water to water units were specified. The simultaneous units, capable of providing 400 tons of heating and cooling, were installed to accommodate the varying conditions in the hospital.
NXP’s multipurpose external units use refrigerant R410A and are suitable for two or four-pipe systems. With just one unit simultaneous and independent requests for hot and chilled water can be accommodated all year round.
As heating and cooling are in constant demand in hospital environments, this is where the NXP shines. The units use a geo loop when required but most of the time they are moving heating and cooling loads around the hospital.
The NXP units are self-contained, and they monitor supply water, return water, as well as the geo source and bring pumps on and off as required to keep the building comfortable.
Result
NXP also provides maximum efficiency without moving any refrigerant through the building as the NXP units recover heating or cooling via water.
As the NXP uses three separate heat exchangers it provides significant benefits compared to other equipment as glycol is not needed on the building side of the heating or cooling loops and no remote valves or special controls are required to control the loads.
Aermec NXP simultaneous heat pumpOne unit used simultaneouslyIndependent requests for hot and cold waterThree separate heat exchangers
