Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge
ENERCRET’s first major contract in the UK was the Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge. We delivered a full energy centre solution comprising of six high efficiency Waterkotte heat-pumps, three water cooled chillers and a bio-fuel CHP engine.
We provided the full, automatic control system for the energy centre, which we now monitor from our Manchester offices as part of our ongoing service contract with the hospitals FM partner. Our specialist automatic control system partner in Germany also support our team with fine-tuning activities to ensure that the system is highly optimised.
The Royal Papworth Hospital will continue for benefit from green, sustainable energy from many years to come thanks to shrewd investment by the trust in the proven technology.
The Papworth scheme is a real flagship project for ENERCRET, setting the standard for ground source energy within the UK. Our designs are unique to ENERCRET as we use a patented shunt technology to maximise heat pump efficiency. Research laboratory studies have indicated that the use of shunt technology improves overall system efficiency by up to 10% in a heat pump centred configuration.
We also been involved in the project recently to resolve ongoing commissioning and automatic control system issues on the wider hospital building services installation.