Buchan Park – Wood fired heating boiler house
Buchan Park is a natural reserve on the western outskirts of Crawley. A biomass systemn has been installed within a packaged boiler house to serve the heating and hot water supply. The special boiler is housed within this unit which utilises wood chips created from trees grown within the country park which are felled through the park’s woodland management scheme. No trees are specifically felled for use as fuel.
The felled wood is tranported to a local wood mill and turned into wood chips. These are then delviered to the facilities within the park.
Buchan Country Park has become part of a renewable energy trial run by West Sussex County Council. In a bid to find an alternative to fossil fuels, the Council has chosen biomass as the renewable source of energy to heat the facilities of the park which include the Education Centre, workshop and two rangers cottages.
The Bioenergy Fully Automatic wood chip boiler has the following features for minimum operation and maintenance:
• Auto start
• Auto clean
• Auto de-ash
• Auto adjusting with Lambda control
Buchan Park boiler house, showing the rear storage area and the transporting of the wood chip to the boiler:
