
During this one-day bus tour we visited Hardwick's meat processing plant at Kyneton that has installed an industrial heat pump, which is integrated into the existing refrigeration plant. Important features of this project include:
- Integration with the refrigeration plant’s oil cooling, desuperheating and condensing systems
- Integration with thermal storage
- Upgraded electrical capacity
- Ammonia based heat pump achieving hot water greater than 75C
Presenting on the tour:
- Site project manager - Mark Hardwick
- Designer - Kevin Joyce, Energy & Thermal Services
- Contractor - Hoctor Refrigeration’s James Hoctor & Eujin Tan
- Compressor OEM – Mayekawa's Peter O'Neill
- Heat exchanger OEM – Alfa Laval’s Anson John
We also visited Brimbank Aquatic and Wellness Centre to view its electrified heating solution for space, pool and domestic hot water solutions.
The tour was a great networking opportunity with end-users, suppliers, government, and consultants in attendance. More and more organisations are looking to heat pumps to efficiently supply heating and cooling services for a range of applications. A busload of representatives from all parts of industry joined the A2EP team for a tour to see this technology in action. We heard first-hand from end-users and technology providers about what is involved with transitioning to heat pump technologies.
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