When properly designed and integrated, solar and CHP energy systems serve as giant loops — using and reusing power, with little waste. The process starts with strategically placed solar collectors. Then, depending on your needs, we develop a system that incorporates any or all of the following processes into your existing facility.

Generates power and uses the waste heat to drive another process. With a cogeneration system, the waste heat generated by micro turbines can be used to drive the regeneration required for the liquid desiccant process and/or operate a double-effect absorption chiller. Waste heat from these applications can be reapplied to heat water for the building. Facilities that operate 24/7 with waste-heat reuse experience higher operating efficiencies.

Dries outside air, as required by ASHRAE standards, before it is introduced into a commercial building. Depending on the size of your facility, desiccant cooling can reduce hundreds of tons of refrigeration cooling that would be required to dry the outside air using traditional cooling coils. And it kills airborne pathogens in the process. The humidity is easily controlled to 45 percent or lower, making it extremely valuable in hospital operating rooms, research “clean” rooms and hospitality venues.

Heats a fluid to temperatures that can drive a single stage absorption chiller to supplement the cooling load during on-peak demand and also provide sufficient hot water storage for all or part of the facility’s hot water demand.

Uses solar energy technology to drive heat engine generators and produce electricity to introduce directly to the power grid. This application is highly effective in areas where electric energy rates are high and the sun is abundant.