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The boiler that does not pollute: AREA Science Park and STP developed an innovative high temperature heat pump
The pollution caused by particulate matter is an emergency during these days in many European cities and has its main cause in the emissions from domestic and buildings heating. The alarm was triggered in a city like Milan, but also in smaller towns the PM10 rates are well in excess of legal limits, as in Pordenone. From the city in northern Italy, however, promising news are coming: a "boiler" that does not use fossil fuels and therefore does not pollute is being tested at the moment.
It is a high temperature heat pump (HT PdC) capable of producing hot water over 75 ° C, and also capable of replacing the existing heating boilers without any need to completely redo the system. A true technological breakthrough in the field, an innovation patent pending, which will soon be born in AREAScience Park , in collaboration with STP, a spin-off business of the Science Park of Trieste.
A first working prototype of this new generation of medium-sized boilers with high efficiency has been installed in a district school in Pordenone. The trial in progress is making very positive track records with even better returns than expected: 115 kW of effective power that substantially exceeds the estimated 100 kW. The innovative heat pump can already heat gym and locker rooms and produce hot water for the whole school. The facility will also serve as Pordenone laboratory for testing and improving the technology and its performance. This first test, very satisfying, is bringing closer the achievement of the creators’ main goal: to replace the traditional boiler heating systems, such as condominiums, with high-temperature heat pumps.
This solution will have many economic, managerial, and ecological advantages. On the energy side, in fact, at least 70% of the energy needed to generate the heat is renewable, with zero emissions on site, with a drastic reduction of pollution in cities and the consequent significant improvement in the urban microclimate.
"Our role as a science park – underlines the President of AREA Science Park, Giancarlo Michellone - is to find out who has great ideas and help to implement them. And ´this is the case of STP, a young company that invented the high-temperature heat pump, which promises to revolutionize the market for heating boilers in the coming years. We managed to shorten the engineering time, realizing the first working prototype with a leader like Rhoss Spa. The tests are a success and we will ntroduce the new technology to institutions, companies and journalists on 28 February in Pordenone.
The heat pump high temperature is part of the AREA plan for the production and efficient use of ENERPLAN energy, co-funded by the Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea.
It is a high temperature heat pump (HT PdC) capable of producing hot water over 75 ° C, and also capable of replacing the existing heating boilers without any need to completely redo the system. A true technological breakthrough in the field, an innovation patent pending, which will soon be born in AREAScience Park , in collaboration with STP, a spin-off business of the Science Park of Trieste.
A first working prototype of this new generation of medium-sized boilers with high efficiency has been installed in a district school in Pordenone. The trial in progress is making very positive track records with even better returns than expected: 115 kW of effective power that substantially exceeds the estimated 100 kW. The innovative heat pump can already heat gym and locker rooms and produce hot water for the whole school. The facility will also serve as Pordenone laboratory for testing and improving the technology and its performance. This first test, very satisfying, is bringing closer the achievement of the creators’ main goal: to replace the traditional boiler heating systems, such as condominiums, with high-temperature heat pumps.
This solution will have many economic, managerial, and ecological advantages. On the energy side, in fact, at least 70% of the energy needed to generate the heat is renewable, with zero emissions on site, with a drastic reduction of pollution in cities and the consequent significant improvement in the urban microclimate.
"Our role as a science park – underlines the President of AREA Science Park, Giancarlo Michellone - is to find out who has great ideas and help to implement them. And ´this is the case of STP, a young company that invented the high-temperature heat pump, which promises to revolutionize the market for heating boilers in the coming years. We managed to shorten the engineering time, realizing the first working prototype with a leader like Rhoss Spa. The tests are a success and we will ntroduce the new technology to institutions, companies and journalists on 28 February in Pordenone.
The heat pump high temperature is part of the AREA plan for the production and efficient use of ENERPLAN energy, co-funded by the Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea.
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