Professor Graeme Maidment Professor of Heating and Cooling at LSBU, said: "We are delighted to be able play a part in this project. Henrique Lagoeiro, LSBU Engineering PhD Student, who has been testing the technology behind Bunhill, for TFL, said: "It's a privilege and honour to be involved in this world leading project where real change is possible." The team’s long-term research partnership with Transport for London (TfL) has shown that it is possible to efficiently capture heat from the Tube and reuse it to provide low carbon, low cost heat to residents, at the same time as cooling the Tube. The heating and cooling team in LSBU’s School of Engineering, have been researching opportunities for recovering heat from a variety of sources found in the urban environment, including the London Underground. The research project will serve as guidance to help operators optimise the efficiency of the heat generation plant and better understand the impacts of the scheme. LSBU’s role in the project is to analyse the real life performance of the scheme, evaluating its benefits and identifying how these can be best applied. The warm air is used to heat water that is then pumped to buildings in the neighbourhood through a new 1.5km network of underground pipes.īunhill 2 has been delivered by Islington Council in collaboration with partners, Transport for London and the Mayor of London’s office. The remains of the station, once known as City Road, have been transformed to house a huge underground fan which extracts warm air from the Northern line tunnels below. The new energy centre uses state-of-the-art technology on the site of a disused Underground station that commuters have not seen for almost 100 years. The revolutionary Bunhill 2 Energy Centre – the first of its kind globally – provides a blueprint for decarbonising heat in London and around the world, reducing heating bills for consumers and carbon emissions, while improving air quality and making cities more energy self-sufficient. A new sustainable energy system that takes waste heat from the London Underground network to provide heating and hot water for more than 1,350 homes, a school and two leisure centres in the London borough of Islington, thanks to a pioneering energy centre opening this week (5 March).
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