Industrial hall switched from woodchip heating to geothermal heat

The heating of an industrial hall in Lappeenranta became more energy efficient and effortless with geothermal heat. Going forward, the entrepreneur’s time is freed up to do productive work instead of heating the hall.

Taking advantage of geothermal heat

In late 2018, Proheat was able to implement a heating system renovation of an industrial hall in Lappeenranta, which involved switching the old woodchip/oil heating to modern geothermal heat.

Up to now, the owner of the hall had taken care of the heating, which is cumbersome and time-consuming. One of the goals of updating the type of heating system was to free up the owner’s own work resources, but also to gain other benefits of geothermal heat: savings in heating costs, friendliness to the environment, even thermal conditions and reliability of operation.

Reliable Gebwell geothermal heating system

Due to financing, the heating system renovation was carried out in two phases. In the first phase, the following geothermal package was completed on site:

• 7 geothermal wells drilled by our partner Rototec. Geothermal wells always have a 10-year warranty.
• A Gebwell Taurus ground source heat pump designed for the heating needs of large properties. In the design of Taurus, special attention has been paid to energy efficiency, quiet operation and reliability of operation.
• The heat distribution system is underfloor heating, which is well-suited for geothermal heat.

Efficiency considered in the installation process

Because the hall has plenty of room, the old heating equipment was left in place, avoiding dismantling costs. The hall had a separate space available for the new geothermal system, i.e. the pump and its required pipes, so it was not worth spending time and money on dismantling the old equipment.

All on-site installation and drilling work was carried out so as to minimise disruption to the hall’s users. The company’s own operations in the hall were not interrupted at any time.

Come and explore on site!

If you are interested in seeing on site how the new heating solution has been implemented, please call us. We will schedule an on-site presentation to introduce the geothermal system in greater detail.

Proheat Oy, Timo Lappalainen, +358 40 569 5147

www.proheat.fi