NIBE APARTMENT BUILDINGS AND COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS NIBE HEAT PUMPS FOR LARGE APARTMENT BUILDINGS AND COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS Find energy everywhere

ENERGY OUT OF THIN AIR? IT’S NOT MAGIC. IT’S NIBE. Look out of your window and you see streets. Or trees. Or maybe open fields. At NIBE we see free sources of energy – from the air around you and the ground beneath your feet. Fresh air is free. And with a NIBE air/water heat pump you can use it to heat your home. Even at sub-zero temperatures, ambient air contains energy. And when you concentrate that energy using a NIBE heat pump you can heat up your home’s water-based radiators – or underfloor heating, and domestic hot water. Our smart technology uses energy from the ground too. A NIBE ground...

IF WE CAN SAVE BIG BUCKS ON SMALL HOUSES, IMAGINE WHAT WE CAN DO WITH LARGE APARTMENT BUILDINGS!

Heat pumps have been without doubt the Swedish householder’s greatest money-saver in recent years. More and more property owners now realize that heat pumps can deliver major savings and are therefore a smart solution - in both financial and environmental terms. What’s more, you don’t have to commit to a particular supplier. NIBE now offers installations up to 540 kW that are capable of covering most needs – even buildings with high energy consumption. Since there is no need for cisterns or fuel storage, you can spread several installations around larger buildings. We’re not talking about saving...

THERE’S ENERGY EVERYWHERE. WE JUST HELP YOU TO TAP INTO IT. Heat pumps can extract energy from a variety of different sources. The one you choose will depend on conditions at the site of your building. With an air/water heat pump, energy is extracted from the outside air and concentrated in order to provide heat to warm up the building’s water-based radiators, underfloor heating and showers or bath water. Air/Water heat pump Takes energy from the outdoor air. • Simple installation • No impact on your garden An air/water heat pump extracts the energy found in the outdoor air. This is achieved...

Surface soil - using a surface collector Cost-effective energy collection. • Irrespective of the climate zone • Excellent output even on the coldest days • Great reliability, minimal maintenance • Free-cooling option During the summer, solar heat is stored in the soil. This is either directly absorbed as insulation or as heat from rain and the air from the near-surface layer of the soil. The heat pump collects this stored solar energy from a buried collector, each hose filled with anti-freeze,and buried at a depth of about 80 – 100 cm. The length of the hose varies between 250 and 400 metres,...

PROCESS HEAT Lots of companies produce heat as a byproduct of their daily operations and do not use it. They just throw it away. Examples are hydraulic presses, heavy machines, dryers, fertilizer, cooking, and storing goods in facilities with at temperatures that are too high. Many of these process heat sources can be used by a heat pump with excellent results. The warmer the source, the better the savings it delivers. Use your imagination! Manure Heat A lot of heat is used in pig farming. For this reason, more and more farmers are starting to recycle the heat from their pig manure. They bury...

Hydraulic heat Waste heat is recycled from hydraulic presses, cooling the oil to keep it at a stable temperature. In a satisfyingly neat cycle the energy recovered produces enough heat to wash and dry the pressed part as well as domestic water to wash and dry the pressed parts. Ventilation heat recycling Exhaust air heat pumps have long been common in private homes. In larger buildings, it is also possible to take advantage of this heat source - which would otherwise be lost along with the ventilated air. This is one of the most profitable energy savings for larger apartment buildings. * if you...

REFERENCE CASE 1 A SMALL INVESTMENT LED TO MAJOR SAVINGS Norskens Wood in Ljungby is a traditional building supplies store. It also makes windows, specialising in circular and half moon shaped frames. In 2009, the company moved south of Ljungby, Sweden into brand new premises. These included a retail store, office and staff areas of approximately 600 square meters on two levels. Norskens Wood turned to the local plumber ”Ohlssons Rör” to install a new heating system, explaining that they wanted a solution that demanded a minimum amount of effort. “We’ve tested the whole system during the coldest...

REFERENCE CASE 2 SWEDISH APARTMENT BLOCK SLASHES ENERGY USE BY 65% The owners of a large (1,200 sq. m.) 1905s building in Laholm, South Sweden rented six apartments to private people and space to a hairdressing salon as well as a café. The salon and café consumed a lot of hot water every day. The owners were looking for an environmentally friendly heating system that would increase profits without them having to increase rents. The price of gas, high ceilings and poor insulation were pushing up energy bills year-on-year – especially in recent very cold winters with tempe- In the first year, energy...

REFERENCE CASE 3 HEAT PUMPS MAKE THE ICE HOTEL HOT AND THE WORLD COLD. The background When you make your living out of the cold - which is the case for northern Sweden’s Ice Hotel –thinking about climate issues is unavoidable. The Ice Hotel is a powerful symbol of mankind’s struggle against global warming. Its owners recently launched the concept of CO2 Negative, which is about alleviating climate change. Not content with becoming CO2 neutral, the Ice Hotel is determined to go one step further and actually absorb more CO2 than it emits. Climate-smart heating plays a major role in the CO2 Negative...

REFERENCE CASE 4 SPANISH VINEYARD COOLS AND HEATS WITH SWEDISH GROUND SOURCE HEATING SYSTEM The background One of the most important aspects of wine production is to maintain the correct temperature. It has to be right where the wine is growing, and during fermentation and storage. In 2001, Raül Bobet set off on a journey through the Pyrenees in search of a suitable location for a new vineyard. Bearing climate change very much in mind, he was looking for a site that would be affected as little as possible by this. Castel d’Encus proved to be just perfect. In this mountainous area of Pallars Jussà...