The fuel cell also reduces nitrogen oxides by more than two metric tons each year – the environmental equivalent of removing 121 cars from the road. The 400kW fuel cell meets 63 percent of the hospital’s electricity needs and 50 percent of the facility’s space heating and hot water requirements through on-site distributed generation – reducing the hospital’s reliance on the power grid. The unit provides 0.64 million Btu/h of high-grade heat (250 F) for space heating and 0.88 million Btu/h of lower-grade heat (140 F) for hot water heating.
Committed to improving the patient care experience through advanced technology and services, the hospital installed a Doosan (south Windsor, Conn.) PureCell Model 400 fuel cell to provide clean, reliable energy to the 350,000-sq.
