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CASE HISTORY Cummins Power Gas Projects Division

ExCel Exhibition Centre - London

CHP Installation
for ExCel Centre
A 1.35MW CHP installation provides Londons biggest
exhibition centre - ExCel in Docklands - with a complete
heating, power and air-conditioning solution.
Operating continuously in parallel with the limited grid
supply, the unit provides a cost-effective alternative to
reinforcing the national grid.
Waste heat from the exhaust system is used to provide
medium hot water for heating in the winter and in the
summer, chilled water for air-conditioning.

CASE HISTORY
Cummins Gas Projects Division has installed a 1.35MW
CHP generating set to supply heating and air-
conditioning for the new 250 million ExCel Exhibition
Centre in Londons Docklands.
Operating 365 days a year and 24 hours a day, the CHP
unit is able to supply medium hot water generated by
waste heat from its exhaust, which in winter is used for
heating and in the summer months, via an absorption
chiller for air-conditioning.
Energy Centre
The Energy Centre, which is operated by Scottish &
Southern, also contains two diesel-powered standby
generating sets that can be used in peak lopping mode for
up to 250 hours a year.
The CHP set operates in parallel with the Centres
electricity grid supply ensuring on-site baseload during
peak periods, such as when exhibitions are being held.
The ExCel Energy Centre also includes three 6MW boilers,
two 2.5MW absorption chillers, and one 3.9MW vapour
compression chiller. In the event of a mains power failure,
the CHP unit is automatically stopped and a circuit breaker
is opened isolating the unit. It then provides standby in
parallel with the Energy Centres two standby sets.
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Cummins Power Generation Limited
Gas Projects Division
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Kent, CT12 5BF, UK
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Email: cpg.uk@cummins.com
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World-class
Covering an area of 90,000m2 ExCel provides London with
a world-class, state-of-the-art venue for conferences,
exhibitions and special events.
This new structure - which is larger than the nearby
Millennium Dome - has broken a number of records by
becoming the largest single roofed structure in the UK, and
the largest single building for the UKs events industry.
ExCel also forms the largest clearspan building in Europe
and required a total of 96 x 87m-long trusses to span the
375m-long halls. One of the venues dominant features is
the external 40m-high mast structure constructed to enable
the roof to span the full width of the exhibition halls without
any internal columns.
Situated alongside the Royal Victoria Dock, ExCels design
incorporates a waterfront promenade overlooked by cafes,
bars and restaurants. It will also be part of an impressive
environment that will eventually include seven hotels with
1,500 rooms, 500 apartments, as well as 20,000m2 of retail
outlets.
In terms of power supply the Docklands area posed a
serious problem for ExCels developers. As there is only a
limited grid supply, and reinforcing the national grid was
deemed to be too high, ExCel brought in Energy Control
Consultants Ltd (ECCL) to formulate an energy strategy.
Cost Effective
As an exhibition centre, modelling for the ExCel site
showed complex demand patterns that varied significantly
depending on two factors: weather temperatures outside,
and the internal use.
The chosen and most cost-effective and efficient
configuration for the site involved using CHP plant for the
baseload topped up by the limited grid supply to make up
the core off-peak load.
Scottish and Southern put the consultants proposal into
practice, installing a 7MW grid supply including two 3MW
diesel-powered generating sets and one Cummins 1.35MW
CHP set powered by a 16 cylinder 16QSV81G 81-litre gas
powered Cummins engine.
The Cummins set now runs continuously. Cummins has a
15-year contract to undertake responsibility for all
maintenance.
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