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Project Focus - AB Medica
Project Focus - AB Medica
< Project: New AB Medica SpA HQs < Plant designer: Planning Srl < Plant type: Hydronic System
< Location: Milan, 2014 < Architect: Giuseppe Tortato < Total Cooling Capacity: 1250 kW
< Application: Offices < Investor: AB Medica SpA < Total Heating Capacity: 1x ERACS2-WQ 3202 S,
1x ERACS2-Q 1762 XL-CA-E-S, 1x ClimaPRO
The building has been given technologically advanced systems that exploit
renewable energy associated with ground source water and air, representing
the advantages of a Class A building.
The energy analysis conducted on this building’s plant system has led to the
design of a heating and cooling system with a hybrid heat pump: a multi-
purpose water condensed heat pump, ERACS2-WQ 3202 S, that exploits
ground source water and a multi-purpose air condensed heat pump,
ERACS2-Q 1762 XL-CA-E, which exploits the thermal component of the air.
Depending on the energy request by the building, the external air temperature
and the resulting power plant efficiency, the control system activates one of
the two heat pumps.
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The plant has been completed with the installation of ClimaPRO, the new
management and optimisation system by Climaveneta, designed to minimise
energy consumption and to simplify the operation and maintenance of the
central heating and cooling system. The supervision system manages and
adjusts each component directly involved in the production and the distribution
of the heating and the cooling energies, therefore involving chillers and heat
pumps, pumping groups as well as the source-side devices like, for example,
the cooling towers.
In addition, ClimaPRO measures in real-time all the operating variables from
the field, for each individual device and each of the main system branches, by
using serial communication lines as well as dedicated analogue signals.
The acquired data is then compared with the design data of each single unit
at many different working conditions, thus allowing the implementation of
control strategies based on dynamic algorithms which take into account the
real operating conditions.
To underline, ClimaPRO is a completely open system capable of integrating
with other management systems to exchange all necessary information about
controls, notifications and general data.
Both the multi-purpose units installed in the new AB Medica SpA headquarters
belong to the INTEGRA range by Climaveneta. They represent the evolution of
reversible chillers, which are able to produce cold and hot water
simultaneously and have been specifically created for 4 pipe systems.
During the months of the year when the building is mainly requesting cold
(summer, spring and autumn), the heat generated on the condenser is free, as
well as when the building mainly requests hot air, the cold generated on the
condenser is free (during winter).
The main feature of the Climaveneta INTEGRA units is that during each period
of the year they independently maximize energy cycle efficiency which
generates hot and cold energy. In particular, units get higher efficiency in
spring and autumn, when there are more possibilities to have simultaneous
request for cooling and heating.