www.heatingandventilating.net From the editor
Cash for hydrogen
E nergy minister Kwasi Kwarteng’s
announcement of a large cash injection into low carbon hydrogen projects signals the government’s commitment to hydrogen as an important fuel source for the future.
H ydrogen is considered to be a low/zero- emission alternative to fossil fuels which could power future industry and transport.
However, key to this is its production in a less carbon intensive process, which makes Mr Kwarteng’s announcement last month all the more important.
The projects to receive funding include two of Europe’s first-ever large scale, low carbon hydrogen production plants, the first on the banks of the Mersey and the second near Aberdeen.
If we are to clean up emissions and tackle the effects of climate change, developing clean technologies will be crucial and will require significant backing from the government. Find out all the details and reaction to the investment on pg 6.
All the latest news about the SkillFRIDGE competition is on pg 14 of this issue, while there are updates on the HVACR Live event on pg 7 and 8.
Features included this month are air
conditioning, commercial heating, ventilation, controls and our Domestic Heating supplement from pg 29.
Heathe Ramsden, Edito
Comment
Cutting edge heat & vent
I
t seems pretty certain now that legislation will soon be in force requiring new build houses to be gas free in the future. In the meantime what can installers and specifiers do to reduce reliance on gas in existing buildings? One simple answer could be to use a hybrid system that can utilise more than one fuel input. Using the Advance Solid Fuel Universal Thermal Store (SFUTS) makes it easy to reduce the reliance on gas because it incorporates additional inputs for a wood burner and other appliances such as solar thermal or PV roof panels, off peak electricity or other inputs for sealed system central heating and mains pressure hot water.
With all the plumbing, controls and wiring pre-installed the unit is said to be easy to install in any multi fuel system. Each input has a thermostat control pre wired to a junction box to control all inputs. Solar thermal is not pre-figured as panel suppliers supply a control package. The SFUTS unit can be specified in three sizes – 210, 250 and 300 litres capacity – and can be supplied as suitable for sealed heating systems so underfloor heating and modern sealed system boilers can be incorporated. The sealed system unit meets G3 safety requirements with three levels of safety so wood burners can be safely installed on a pumped circuit. The unit is CE marked in addition to the HETAS listing. Hot water is mains fed for power showers and fast bath filling, using an internal high output coil as a heat exchanger through a thermal mixing valve. A small expansion vessel is used as a shock arrestor and a service valve is fitted.
The first HETAS listing was awarded to Advance Appliances for their SFUTS multi fuel thermal store so it has third party attestation.
More dom estic news and features
from pg 29 HOWTO REDUCE RELIANCE ON GAS
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PARASOL Zenith Ready for change
High performance 4-way distribution comfort module with cooling,
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Zenith provides the perfect indoor climate.
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