Biomass to replace gas in an Asturian convent

This winter the Convent of the Discalced Carmelites of Oviedo will be a more comfortable home thanks to the fact that it is heated with wood pellets. The nuns have hired the IDEP company to replace the propane gas boilers that supplied heating to their rooms with a pellet boiler, through an energy services contract.

IDEP has carried out the project and the installation and has been in charge of the financing, offering an energy services contract with 10% savings compared to the convent's annual heating costs.

The installation consists of a 50 KW Firefox pellet boiler, made in Austria. It is a fully automatic boiler, with high performance and advanced combustion regulation using a lambda probe, primary and secondary air fans and smoke extraction with frequency variation, continuous power modulation thanks to the pellet dosage with variable speed, Combustion plate with advanced programmed cleaning system and ash extraction to external containers.

The boiler room that has been enabled includes an 8-ton pellet silo, made with wooden ramps, a 1000-liter buffer tank and a main variable-speed heating pump that supplies heat to the three circuits that make up the boiler. facility.

The installation as a whole is monitored by a home automation module, with an internet connection, in which you can see the status of all the electronic components of the installation (boiler, pumps, augers, temperature probes), historical record and graphs. of data. The module sends alarms to the mobile phone in the event of any failure in the installation and notifies the charging status of the silo.

With this installation, the Convent of the Carmelites becomes the first institution of this type in Asturias that is committed to a modern biomass installation for heating, providing a reduction in CO2 emissions and contributing to caring for the environment of the city of Oviedo. .