Data centres and AI inference
1.12–1.26 MW of IT per module: 8 liquid-cooled AI racks or one NVIDIA DSX POD. 45 °C water at the rack; ~1.0 MW of rack heat rejected without a compressor.
2 MW CCHP module
Power, cooling and heat from one module
One containerised natural-gas module generates firm power, cooling and heat on your own site, without waiting for the grid.
Concept in development · design targets, to be validated on the pilot block
Why a turbine and not a genset: the heat leaves in a single hot stream that drives absorption cooling and still leaves ~1.7–1.9 MWt for steam or hot water. For loads of hundreds of kW or raw biogas, see the V70 and V200 microturbines.
Read why →How trigeneration (CCHP) works
The same exhaust, used three times
One fuel produces electricity, cooling and heat. What the turbine would send up the stack goes back into the cycle or becomes a utility on site.
Turbine and generator
A 2 MW-class industrial turbine, running on natural gas, drives the generator.
ACTE recuperator
Returns ~2.3 MWt of exhaust heat to the cycle: electrical efficiency rises from ~23% to ~33%.
Absorption cooling
After the recuperator, ~1.7–2.2 MWt is still left above 100 °C. That heat drives an absorption chiller, which makes chilled water without a compressor.
Useful heat
Whatever the chiller does not use becomes hot water or steam for the process, the hospital or a neighbour.
Efficiency: 31–33% electrical; up to ~80% when all the heat is put to use (cogeneration).
What one module delivers
Power, cooling and heat, per module
Cooling and heat come from the same exhaust: what goes to the chiller does not go to hot water, and the other way round. Each site's design sets the split.
1.4–1.6 MWe
Net electrical output
≈1,630 kW at 15 °C and ≈1,460 kW at 25 °C.
~1.36 MWe
Held up to 45 °C
On hot days, exhaust heat cools the air the turbine draws in.
~1.7–1.9 MWt
Exhaust heat left above 100 °C
Available as hot water or steam.
137–333 kW
Absorption cooling
In the data-centre configuration, from a 352 kW chiller driven by exhaust heat.
31–33%
Electrical efficiency
36–42% counting the cooling; up to ~80% with cogeneration.
1.4 MW · 187 kWh
Battery
Absorbs load steps, starts the turbine without the grid (black start) and carries the module for ~7 min if the turbine stops.
~430 Nm³/h
Natural gas at 25 °C
One module's consumption, from a pipeline or the distribution network.
~1.2–1.5 MW
of cooling in a cooling-only configuration
About 340–430 TR, if all the remaining exhaust heat drives absorption chillers (COP ~0.7).
configuration estimate — sized per projectDesign targets per module, natural gas, sea level; the recuperated version will be validated on the pilot block.
Applications
For sites that need megawatts
The machine is the same in every case. What changes is where the electricity, the cooling and the heat go.
Industry
Electricity plus process steam or hot water from the same gas. Heat that would leave through the stack goes into the plant.
Shopping centres
Absorption air-conditioning and electricity on site. The module shaves the peaks in grid demand.
Hospitals
Electricity, hot water or steam, and cooling on the same site, with continuity of supply for loads that cannot stop.
Campuses and universities
One plant for power, cooling and heat across several buildings, tied into the campus chilled- and hot-water networks.
Utilities
Firm capacity and backup at points in the grid that need reinforcement.
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Which equipment for which load
Hundreds of kW
V70 and V200 microturbine blocks
For smaller loads, with redundancy inside the block itself.
Distributed energy →MW range
2 MW CCHP module
For megawatt loads, with cooling and heat from the same exhaust. Several modules side by side serve larger loads.
Fuel
Natural gas today
Natural gas
From a pipeline or the distribution network. Biomethane that meets the grid specification can also be used.
Hydrogen
In development — already accepting up to 30% hydrogen blended with natural gas.
Timing
Days from stock, months to order
~60 days
From stock in Brazil to switch-on
On a ready site: gas connected, environmental licence issued, foundations in place.
3–9 months
New orders
Built and tested at the factory before shipping.
Have a load in the megawatt range?
Send us the electrical load, the cooling and heat demand, the gas available and the address. We'll do the first analysis.