Building Cooling Heating and Power (BCHP)

In response to the U. S. Department of Energy, Office of Power Technologies’ Packaged Building Cooling, Heating and Power (BCHP) solicitation, Energy Concepts has teamed with a large industrial manufacturer and a combustion engineering firm to design, fabricate and install a skid-mounted, packaged BCHP system based on a 70kWe microturbine soon to be commercially available. This BCHP system will integrate on-site power generation, thermal recovery and thermally activated cooling technologies to provide overall resource efficiency levels of 70% or greater. A supermarket refrigeration equipment manufacturer will install the BCHP package as part of their "Supermarket of the Future" initiative, designed to optimize energy efficiency, shopper convenience, and food storage quality.

Energy Concepts’ patented GAX absorption cycle will deliver inlet cooling to the microturbine and refrigeration directly to the supermarket cooling plant to increase microturbine efficiency and lower utility bills for the supermarket. The microturbine will deliver on-site generated power, for peak shaving, reliable grid back-up, and insulation against volatile energy rates. The system is expected to be operational in summer of 2003.