Heating Industrial & commercial
The industry now has access to
highly sophisticated controls that
can keep condensing boilers in
condensing mode for most of their
operating life – James Parkinson
zero-carbon technologies, such as solar thermal, heat
pumps and combined heat and power (CHP) products,
to reduce fuel consumption and carbon footprint.
Peter McCree, director and chief executive of ICOM
Energy Association, agrees that the EuP Directive
will challenge the industrial and commercial heating
sector: ‘It has still not been made clear how the EU
intends to move forward. It will affect both heating
and hot water, and it has taken a mammoth struggle to
make the consultants understand that, at the lower end
of the UK commercial market, the majority of heating
products are sold through merchants as individual
Controls can be crucial to
> and Evans sees it having a profound impact on the items and not as packages,’ he says.
running a system.
way the industry operates: ‘The commercial heating He adds: ‘At the larger end, it becomes a bespoke
industry can only meet [the minimum performance package and there are many people involved in the
requirements set by the EuP Directive] if the market installation. However, this means that legal compliance
players move away from being equipment suppliers should be easier. The proposed system approach
to being solution providers, and taking ownership of a to ensure that whole system efficiency is raised and
broader scope of supply on projects.’ meets the required standards cannot be dealt with by
He thinks the minimum system efficiency target the merchant supplying a package.’
of the EuP Directive of 96 per cent in 2013 can Evans says there still appears to be a huge gap in the
only be achieved through the use of a combination marketplace when it comes to the detailed knowledge
of technologies in commercial plant rooms, i.e. of the application of low- and zero-carbon technologies,
conventional commercial boilers and water heaters and their integration and operation with commercial
operating alongside, and in conjunction with, low- and boilers and water heaters. >
Trends The next big thing in industrial and commercial heating is ...
We asked a number of industry figures: towards the use of heat pumps and CHP Peter McCree, ICOM Energy Association:
‘What will be the “next big thing” in products working in harmony to deliver The next big thing will be the adoption of
industrial/commercial heating in terms of ultra-low carbon solutions. ‘blue flame’ burner technology as standard.
technology and or “trends”?’ Here are some The incorporation of liquid biofuels
responses: Richard Evans, Buderus: may become the norm, providing the
There are already two dominant trends government does not overtax the product
Yan Evans, Baxi Commercial: – one is for increased energy efficiency and allows it to be competitive with fossil
Heat pumps appear to be favoured of buildings, and the other is the use of fuels, or even advantageous to switch.
by legislative measures such as the EuP greener energy sources. The difficulty
Directive. These could be ground source, comes in predicting, in the long term, Mark Northcott, Remeha:
air source or gas absorption heat pumps. which of the many available technologies

The onset of renewable technologies
This is as a result of the potentially high best fits at the point where these two trends such as solar energy, biodiesel, biomass
Coefficient of Performance that can be meet. boilers, heat pumps, etc, has meant
achieved if heat pumps are used in the As no one technology yet offers a single that more conventional high-efficiency
appropriate applications with suitable load solution, the answer is the next big thing condensing boilers have been used more
temperatures. will be hybrid heating systems, with for ‘top-up energy’.
We believe that micro- and mini-CHP combinations of multiple technologies. The If renewable sources are starting to act,
products will feature more in domestic key to the successful integration of these in effect, as the ‘lead boilers’, it follows that
dwellings and commercial applications, technologies will be the controls, and it is the boilers supporting them will get smaller.
due to carbon dioxide reduction potential probable that flexible, energy optimising Indeed, I believe that as more commercial
offered by displacing grid supplied controls will be the most important element projects become renewable-based, the trend
electricity. There may also be a trend until a single technology emerges. towards smaller boiler plant will accelerate.
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