The building was previously heated with three existing commercial gas boilers that had come to the end of their life, so Dorset House was identified as one of the buildings to focus on as part of a decarbonisation plan.
Bournemouth University has 17,000 students and about 2,000 staff. Its main site is at the Talbot Campus, with 14 academic buildings including Dorset House, home to the Doctoral College, which provides support to the postgraduate research community.
Nine CAHV-R air source heat pumps from Mitsubishi Electric have been installed in a special compound to replace the gas boilers. The CAHV-R units can deliver domestic hot water up to 70°C, which will be used for both heating and hot water throughout Dorset House.
A single CAHV-R unit can deliver up to 40kW of capacity and each unit can work in a cascade system to reach higher capacities of up to 640kW. This makes the CAHV-R heat pump suitable for a wide range of applications. For Dorset House, it also means that the multi-unit system can deliver capacities to match the different load requirements of the building throughout the year, and can also rotate operation between units, to help extend equipment life.
This new Mitsubishi Electric air source heat pump uses low GWP R454C refrigerant, offering a robust, low carbon system for the provision of sanitary hot water and space heating
These heat pumps were chosen as they meant we didn’t have to upgrade any of the radiators inside the building and they give a high temperature on heat output inside Dorset House, we've had a good involvement with Mitsubishi over the last few years and are currently using heat pumps in about four or five of our projects as we speak.
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