HEAT LOOP PROJECT SEWARD
THE HEART OF SEWARD
The 'Heart' of our heat loop project will be the Seward Community Library Museum building. Opened in 2013, our public library is operated by the City of Seward. Located in downtown Seward and near the shores of Resurrection Bay, it makes the project efficient by location and connectivity abilities to heat four municipal buildings. The Library Museum, the City Annex, City Hall and the Fire Hall, all within one block of each other, with the Library Museum building and the City Annex sharing a common alley way.
The vertical wells will be located approximately 300 feet away, with the closed loop underground, on City property, looping to the Library Museum building, where the Heat Pump equipment will be located in the basement. The exchange will happen with the heat pump equipment and the hot water will be used to heat the library museum building and be pumped to the other three buildings with lines underground. These four municipal buildings are situated at the top of our downtown business district with easy ongoing access to sidewalks and the businesses and homes in the downtown business district themselves for future heating opportunities.
Our project is similar to the Alaska SeaLife Center's heat pump systems with updated/upgraded technologies, such as using CO2 refrigerant which can achieve higher temperature output, hence greater efficiency and it is non-toxic to the environment. Our community library building will house the heat pumps and be the 'heart' of our heating district system. Our project features vertical wells approximately 240 ft deep which will have a closed looping system, with the refrigerant CO2, where it captures the heat from the waters of Resurrection Bay as the tides flush in and out daily moving warm water through the vertical wells.
While the Alaska SeaLife Center system pumps water from Resurrection Bay into the center, our closed loop system is underground on City property close to the shore with the tide washing in and out of the gravel/sand underground, flushing the warm waters of Resurrection Bay which maintain a consistent temperature range of 49-59F as the tides rise and fall, giving us clean consistent access to the tidal/geothermal heat, all year long. We are not reliant on wind or hydro power, which have inconsistencies due to weather and climate. While the Heat Pump system uses electricity to operate the heat pumps systems, it will be more efficient in doing so.
Our design is ready to do four municipal buildings currently, this district heat system can be expanded/built upon to eventually heat all of Seward's downtown sidewalks and businesses with access to hotels, aqua culture facility, health care facility, subsidized housing units, homes and recreational facilities, many restaurants, both seasonal and year round.
We can be reached at our email: [email protected]
PROJECT DESIGN BY: YOUR CLEAN ENERGY (YCE)
FOR: CITY OF SEWARD, ALASKA