Revision of heating

Självständigt arbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen) The heating of companies premises is today functional with electrical heating and heating of fossil fuel. The energy cost for these kinds of heating in buildings has heavily increased during the last years and the influence on the environment has become more visual. This leads to that enterprises today become more anxious to render energy more effective and find alternative solutions to their ancient heating systems. This is something that Skandinaviska kraftprodukter AB in Halmstad has become aware of. The purpose with this examination is to find the most cost-efficient and environmental measures for the office and workshop premises of SKP AB. Where one of the bigger things is to find a good alternative for their current oil furnace, which was heating the workshop. Another big thing was to take forward suggestions for measures of rendering energy more effective for the buildings. By taking contact with people in the business and by inspecting the premises and the heating system, we got an idea about the measures that could be of current interest. We analysed these measures to see if they could last financially and environmentally. At the financial analysis we used LCC-method which means that you calculate the cost of the investment during its life. With the heating system this means, among other things, running, maintenance and initial costs. To examine the affect on the environment from the different heating alternatives we chose to make a easier LCA, which we based on the local conditions. In an existing building it is the simple measures of rendering energy that dominates financially, the bigger investments don’t create financial expectations high enough with the energy prices of today. In the workshop it was foremost a number of industrial gates that led to great heating losses, which would best be taken care off by PVC-stripes curtain or automatic shutoff of the heating system when the gates are open. Another alternative would be to invest in aircurtain. This would reduce the heating losses a lot, but because of the large investment cost is this not an option. The most cost-efficient measure is to increase the awareness of the employees, about how their behaviour is affecting the use of energy and to make sure that heat and ventilation doesn’t run unnecessarily. While going through possible heating alternatives for the workshop, three alternatives seemed the most interesting, air-to-air heat pump dis