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Helsinki bouwt ’s werelds grootste warmtepomp

By Phil Bainbridge

October 24, 2022 - A €400 million, 500MW project to generate heat for the Finnish capital will use seawater from the Baltic even when the sea surface is frozen.

Seawater will be carried to the heat exchangers via a 17km tunnel being bored from the Baltic seabed - where the temperature is a constant 2˚C year round. Heat exchangers will transfer and concentrate the heat from the seawater - which is returned to the sea through a 9km tunnel - to the district heating system where it will reach around 88˚C.

Already home to the world’s largest heat pump, Helsinki is aiming to become carbon neutral by 2050, and the new pump alone is expected to provide up to 40% of the city’s heating requirements when it goes online in around 2029. The utility company Helen Ltd currently provides around 8% of Helsinki’s heating through recovering heat from waste water and the excess from data centres and other buildings.

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PUBLISHED: 24/10/2022; STORY: Graphic News
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