Electromedical Business Group (GEE), market leader in maintenance services for electromedical equipment in the Spanish health sector, installs a residual heat reuse system at the Severo Ochoa University Hospital, with which it obtains an extra net heat production of 1.883MWh, reducing gas consumption by almost 36% and saving about 350 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere per year.
under the European project ReUseHeat, and through the installation of a Booster heat pump, takes advantage of the surplus residual heat, which is not used, coming from the operation of machines and converts it into usable heat energy. This system responds to the demand for energy that is compromised by the crisis in the sector and the increase in costs of fossil fuels. In addition, it takes advantage of the heat that is already generated, increasing the energy efficiency of the equipment and contributing to the sustainability of the planet, thus slowing down the effects of climate change.
The ReUseHeat project started in October 2017 funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program, in order to create some first systems to replicate in the urban environment.
There are more ReUseHeat projects in the European Union, along with that of the Severo Ochoa University Hospital of GEE, which support the technical and economic feasibility of this recovery and reuse of excess heat located in the Berlin Metro stations and in the center of data from Brunswick, Germany, and in the sewage collectors from Nice, France. The efficiency of the system is guaranteed by the installation of monitoring and control systems that evaluate its performance and impact. The excess heat that is not used in the European Union could be reused to heat all the buildings in this same territory.
This GEE project serves as the basis for the creation of manuals for developers and investors that will support the future use of this excess heat. El target is to generate interest in the application of these systems both at a corporate and individual level and to accelerate their penetration. In the same way that the Company has installed this system at the Severo Ochoa University Hospital, It can also be applied to other sectors such as the automotive, industrial and even homes, among many others.