Product launches at ebec

How your Land Rover can heat your home

A prototype thermal energy storage and transfer system developed by UK based heating supplier Atmos Heating Systems can capture energy wasted in a vehicle’s combustion engine and use it to heat a home.

The system will be demonstrated for the first time at Microgen 2011 by TESSA - or Thermal Energy Storage and Saving Automobile - a Land Rover Freelander fitted with the prototype.  

John Thomason, the general manager of Atmos Heating Systems  said the internal combustion engine only manages a mechanical power efficiency averaging around 30% with the remaining 70% is dissipated as heat, through the radiator coolant system and the exhaust, so most is simply lost into the atmosphere. 

“Whilst our technology does not reduce CO2 emissions from the vehicle, it utilises heat that is otherwise wasted, resulting in lower fossil fuel consumption in the home and thereby an overall net benefit to the environment,” he said. 

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Top Loader built to handle all volumes of biomass

An innovative and economical solution for the efficient storing, moving and dispensing of large volumes of biomass, agricultural and waste products has been introduced by BHSL.  

The patented Top Loader comes in a number of different sizes and can shift up to 150 tonnes of all volumes and types of bio fuels each day.    BHSL’s Top Loaders use an innovative mechanical design which makes them very versatile and energy efficient.  This means they can be designed as a stand alone unit or multiple in-line units and installed in any new construction or retro fit into existing buildings.

Mounted on a dual rail track system above the storage bunker, the Top Loader’s carriage travels backwards and forwards while its blade, which spans the storage bunker, moves up and down.   As the carriage moves forward the blade comes down into the material in the bunker and scrapes a controlled amount into a conveyor.  This also means the Top Loader clears the storage bunker as it goes, making refilling easy.

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BHSL (ebec) is exhibiting its new innovative BHSL Top Loader material handling solution:

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Strebel's new product that has never before been shown at a uk exhibition: the Strebel KSM multi fuel (rape seed husk, grain, wood chip and pellet) biomass boiler. The product will be on Strebel's stand, D19.

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UK launch of GeoT*SOL, the new simulation program for heat pump systems.

The companion program to world-class software T*SOL and PV*SOL, GeoT*SOL is the professional program for planning and evaluating heat pumps. Designed by Valentin Software in Germany, it allows the user to choose from a variety of system types and components and to optimise systems by targeting the highest possible Coefficient of Performance (COP).

The software can simulate both ground- and air-source heat pump systems, and provides the customer with an economic efficiency prediction by calculating the ratio of heat price to anticipated service life. The software creates professional reports for customers with precise data and graphics.

The Solar Design Company’s MD, Chris Laughton, will be officially launching GeoT*SOL with an introductory demonstration of the software. This will take place at 11:15am on Wednesday 5th Oct, on Stand F1.

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