CHP TRADESHOW EXHIBIT

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) exhibit at the ASHE Conference and Technical Exhibition offered new and exciting information. The exhibit featured a look at cooling, heating and power (CHP) systems in hospitals both today and in the future. With the theme of “CHP: Good Today, Better Tomorrow,” the booth addressed both the “here and now” benefits of conventional combined heat and power systems in hospitals around the country and the additional benefits that newly developed packaged CHP systems have to offer to hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Visitors to the exhibit, met industry leaders who were charting new paths with ORNL by packaging power generation and absorption chiller/heater equipment with control systems into pre-engineered units. These systems can save significant amounts of capital expenditures and installation costs compared to conventional CHP (custom) systems. ASHE attendees who visited during the Monday lunchtime exhibit hours were able to attend one, two or all three in a series of short (10 minute) presentations made by representatives of the ORNL-funded teams that are developing a variety of these packaged energy systems.

The following presenters made the presentations:

• Ed Mardiat (Burns & McDonnell),
• John Kelly (Gas Technology Institute),
• Tony Thibodeau (Honeywell), and
• Tom Coulbourn (United Technologies)

Among the literature that was on hand for visitors to take with them was:

1. Aa series of hospital “Fact Sheets” profiling individual CHP installations in hospitals;
2. Packaged CHP systems fact sheets providing detail on the initiatives and demonstrations currently underway; and
3. Copies of a CHP Primer recently developed for hospital facility managers.