Summary
The project was carried out in order to increase energy efficiency of District Heating Plant Kukucinova in Sala, in south west of Slovakia. The total original installed capacity of 11 640 kW provided heat and domestic hot water to 2520 inhabitants of the town Sala. The project includes the total change of boilers and all equipment of heating plant and a switch from brown coal to natural gas. As a result the heating plant's efficency was increased, the running cost and CO2, SO2, NOx emissions were decreased. Furthermore the noise of heating plant that was a trouble for people living around is solved. There is also no need to supply heating plant with 740 trucks of brown coal per year. This is another contribution of the project to improvement of air in the town.
Results
A major benefit of this project is increase of boilers efficiency by 20%, consequently increase of heat plant efficiency by 18 %. Secondly, emissions of CO2 were decreased 4 times, CO by 25 times, NOx 5.2 times, ash and SO2 emissions were decreased almost to zero. Moreover running costs were decreased by 1 492 240 SKK per year. Noise of heat plant was eliminated too. Further the increase of noise and pollution by trucks that supply heat plant by coal was eliminated as well. Due to modern automatic control system Heat Plant Kukucinova is working efficiently now.
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