700kW Wood Chip System comprising two ETA HACK 350 boilers working in cascade via two 4000L buffer tanks…
This system which generates enough output to heat a Primary School or Cottage Hospital, is heating the production site at Whittaker Engineering – including 3 factory floors, offices and a workshop. Two ETA HACK 350 boilers work in cascade to deliver up to 700kW of heat, via two 4000L buffer tanks. Whittaker Engineering have designed and built a new plant room and wood chip store to house the boilers and bespoke feed system. The chip store is locate above the boiler room to crucially minimise the plant foot print. The system uses 3 vertical filling augers to load the chip into the store and minimise time the delivery lorry is in the yard area. An agitator with dual auger extract system then fuels the boiler via two drop chutes to the boilers below.
Colm Lawlor (Head of UK Sales for ETA’s UK distributor Innasol) joined us to hand over this dual cascade HACK 350 Wood Chip system to Ken Whittaker of Whittaker Engineering in Stonehaven.
Ken sent us the following praise for the system, 6 months after commissioning “I write to you on a cold morning and coming into our workshops where it is lovely and warm. Our two new ETA 350 KW woodchip boilers are working perfectly and reliably, they are often shown to visiting customers when they comment on the comfortable working conditions. The woodchip loading system has now become a non-event and the augers feed in the woodchip in a very gradual and predictable manner.Of course our two Windhager wood pellet boilers [Phase 1] continue to operate like clockwork heating the three separate workshops, they are now taken for granted. The back-up we have had from your maintenance technicians has been first class and their servicing has been quick and discreet. All in all we are very satisfied with Glendevon Energy with the installation and support of our ETA and Windhager biomass boilers.
Our new heating system is efficient, sustainable and very economical“.