Colombia.
By December 15, the start of operations of the Thermal District Project that is currently being carried out in Medellín, La Alpujarra sector, where the administrative headquarters of the city are located, was confirmed.
The La Alpujarra Thermal District, the first of its kind to be built in Latin America, will provide air conditioning services to the buildings of the Mayor's Office of Medellín, the Municipal Council, the Government of Antioquia, the Departmental Assembly, the Metropolitan Area, the Directorate of National Taxes and Customs (Dian) and the planned new headquarters of UNE.
The turbogenerator will provide electrical energy for the operation of some equipment of the Thermal Power Plant, including pumps, cooling towers, monitoring and control systems. It will also produce hot air, as a result of the combustion of natural gas, which will run a chiller of the indirect heat absorption type, which is silent, has no vibration and does not use refrigerants that affect the ozone layer, making it environmentally friendly.
In this process, cogeneration or combination of heat and power is used, which is the combined production of thermal energy and electrical or mechanical energy. And trigeneration or combination of heat, cooling and power, which takes advantage of cogeneration with the addition of a cold generation process.
The La Alpujarra Thermal District will be a sustainable energy efficiency solution that will result in the quality of life of the community and in the care of the planet. The system will reuse waste heat and reduce CO2 emission, the use of ozone-depleting substances and the heat island effect.
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