Passive or ‘free’ cooling with a ground source heat pump is an available benefit to Kensa’s technology. Passive cooling provides ultra-low-cost cooling in the summer, whilst re-charging the ground for more efficient heating the following winter.
While passive cooling works well in individual properties or communal areas, multiple property schemes featuring Networked Heat Pump systems using Shared Ground Loop Arrays are particularly suited to passive cooling.
Networked Heat Pumps, fitted with the Kensa passive cooling module and connected to an Ambient Heat Network with Shared Ground Loop Arrays, provide a one-stop-shop efficient heating and cooling solution for clusters of multiple buildings and flats.
The Kensa Passive Cooling Module can also be retrofitted to Kensa Shoebox ground source heat pump systems.
Networked Heat Pumps with passive cooling will use the heat removed to recharge the ground array to improve the overall efficiency of the system, rather than just throwing it away.
Networked Heat Pumps connecting multiple buildings with a mix of dwellings and commercial buildings create further opportunities. The addition of mixed heating and cooling demands for the diverse building types offers the opportunity for efficiency improvements and reduced capital cost of the ground array, as the balanced load means borehole depths can usually be reduced.
If higher cooling loads are required, such as for glazed offices or server rooms, then dedicated cooling heat pumps can be used to provide active cooling. Connecting these to the same Networked Heat Pump system again gives you the benefit of recycling the waste heat to recharge the ground array and improve heating system efficiency.
In the summer, the ground is almost always more efficient for cooling than air. So when you combine heating and cooling options together this advantage increases.
For example, if you have a block of flats with retail space on the ground floor, such as a supermarket, then the annual heating load of the flats could be larger than the annual cooling load of the supermarket. In this scenario, the cold stored in the ground (created by extracting heat from the ground to heat the flats) can be enough to provide all, or much of, the annual cooling demand for the supermarket without the use of a heat pump at all!
Networked Heat Pumps, fitted with the Kensa passive cooling module and connected to an Ambient Heat Network with Shared Ground Loop Arrays, provide a one-stop-shop efficient heating and cooling solution for clusters of multiple buildings and flats.
The Kensa Passive Cooling Module can also be retrofitted to Kensa Shoebox ground source heat pump systems.
Networked Heat Pumps with passive cooling will use the heat removed to recharge the ground array to improve the overall efficiency of the system, rather than just throwing it away.
Networked Heat Pumps connecting multiple buildings with a mix of dwellings and commercial buildings create further opportunities. The addition of mixed heating and cooling demands for the diverse building types offers the opportunity for efficiency improvements and reduced capital cost of the ground array, as the balanced load means borehole depths can usually be reduced.
If higher cooling loads are required, such as for glazed offices or server rooms, then dedicated cooling heat pumps can be used to provide active cooling. Connecting these to the same Networked Heat Pump system again gives you the benefit of recycling the waste heat to recharge the ground array and improve heating system efficiency.
In the summer, the ground is almost always more efficient for cooling than air. So when you combine heating and cooling options together this advantage increases.
For example, if you have a block of flats with retail space on the ground floor, such as a supermarket, then the annual heating load of the flats could be larger than the annual cooling load of the supermarket. In this scenario, the cold stored in the ground (created by extracting heat from the ground to heat the flats) can be enough to provide all, or much of, the annual cooling demand for the supermarket without the use of a heat pump at all!
The coolest bit about passive cooling is that any energy taken out of the building during the cooling process helps to recharge the ground array; this will increase the efficiency of the heat pump when providing hot water through the summer, and also store enough energy in the ground to improve the efficiency of the heat pump when heating the building the following winter.
To help with the installation of passive cooling systems, Kensa has developed a passive cooling module and control wiring centre for use with the Kensa Shoebox only. When linked to Shoebox, this provides the components for a cost-effective cooling system.
The Kensa Passive Cooling Module can also be retrofitted to the Shoebox heat pump.
To help with the installation of passive cooling systems, Kensa has developed a passive cooling module and control wiring centre for use with the Kensa Shoebox only. When linked to Shoebox, this provides the components for a cost-effective cooling system.
The Kensa Passive Cooling Module can also be retrofitted to the Shoebox heat pump.
For applications requiring year-round cooling, the Kensa Commercial Range ground source heat pumps can be operated in active cooling reverse-cycle mode to deliver temperatures of 6°C – 12°C. Active cooling with ground source heat pumps is particularly commonplace in large commercial applications.
Kensa’s modular Commercial Range heat pumps enable the system to match any required cooling load.
For applications requiring year-round cooling, the Kensa Commercial Range ground source heat pumps can be operated in active cooling reverse-cycle mode to deliver temperatures of 6°C – 12°C. Active cooling with ground source heat pumps is particularly commonplace in large commercial applications.
Kensa’s modular Commercial Range heat pumps enable the system to match any required cooling load.