Power Quality for Healthcare
The air handling, chillers, pumps and lifts that keep your hospital running waste electricity before it reaches them, and HarmoniQ stops that waste at its source, without disrupting the building.
A Hospital Never Closes. Neither Does the Waste.
Your hospital runs air handling units, chillers, pumps, lifts and lighting around the clock. Between them they make the current in your building distorted, reactive and unbalanced, and part of every kilowatt-hour you pay for never does useful work. It becomes heat, in your cables, your transformers and your motor windings.
It doesn't appear on your bill as a line of its own. It shows up as higher consumption, power-factor penalties, capacity charges, and equipment that fails sooner than it should. HarmoniQ works on the building services behind it.
10–20%
Typical saving in kilowatt-hours on a hospital's low-voltage building services, by preventing the losses before they occur
Where the Waste Starts in a Hospital
Three problems account for most of it, and each has a unit that sits where the problem starts.
Harmonic distortion
Air handling, pump and lift drives
Variable-speed drives on air handling units, pumps and lifts draw current in sharp pulses. The 5th and 7th harmonics ripple through the building, heating cables, transformers and motor windings.
FittedHarmoniQ Delta, at the drives
Reactive power
Chillers, pumps and fans
Chillers and the motors on pumps and fans draw current that does no work but still has to be supplied, inflating the apparent power you are billed for and the capacity you have to reserve.
FittedHarmoniQ Alpha at each machine, HarmoniQ Sigma at the incomer
Phase imbalance
Lighting and small power
Lighting and small power circuits are single-phase and leave the three phases uneven. The difference flows down the neutral and sets up counter-rotating fields in your motors: heat without torque.
FittedHarmoniQ Alpha, at the load
Same Building. Less Power.
With the waste prevented, the same hospital runs the same building services on fewer kilowatt-hours. With power-factor penalties gone and capacity charges lower too, that can take up to 25% off your total electricity bill where all three apply.
- Energy savings · kWh
- 10–20%
- Power factor
- 0.98+
- Equipment life · Arrhenius
- 2–4×
- Operational disruption
- 0
What We Hear, and the Reality
We hear
“We're a public hospital. There's no capital budget for this.”
The reality
Whatever route pays for it, the case starts with a measured saving. The on/off test proves it in kilowatt-hours at your own meter, before any annual figure is quoted. Your finance team then works from a number taken in your own building.
We hear
“Our medical equipment already has its own power protection.”
The reality
Whatever is built into a machine only works for that machine. HarmoniQ works on the building services: HVAC, chillers, pumps, lifts and lighting. Their distorted and reactive current is where the energy is wasted. It makes no claim about clinical equipment.
We hear
“We can't risk any disruption to clinical services.”
The reality
Agreed. HarmoniQ connects in parallel, alongside your circuits rather than in series with them, so nothing in your supply runs through it. Installation causes no disruption, and a method statement and risk assessment come before any work begins.
Three Steps. Zero Disruption.
01 · Assess
Measure the network
Our engineers measure the network behind your building services and show you where energy is being wasted, before anything is fitted.
02 · Install
Fit alongside your circuits
Each unit goes in where its problem starts, connected in parallel, with the hospital running. A method statement and risk assessment come first.
03 · Prove
Test it on and off
The on/off test proves the saving at your own meter, before any annual figure is quoted.
See What HarmoniQ Can Do for Your Hospital
Our engineers will measure your site and show you exactly where energy is being wasted, and how much of it HarmoniQ can prevent.