Sewage heat recovery for the college could also mean low carbon-heating for surrounding areas.
Vancouver Community College is looking to capture lost heat from the city’s sewer system to heat its campus and around Great Northern Way — which is only made easier thanks to its location.
“It's certainly not a grail you would want to be drinking from, but in terms of a waste heat opportunity, it’s a big one that the Neighbourhood Energy Utility has been interested in for a long time,” said Pope. “At the False Creek Neighbourhood Energy Utility, we produce hot water by extracting heat from the sewer system and we send that hot water to buildings in the False Creek area including the Olympic Village. Those buildings take heat out of that thermal loop. And they use that to provide heating and domestic hot water to the buildings. And so that's called a neighbourhood energy system or sometimes referred to as a district energy system,” Pope said.
The initiative builds on a sustainable trend to use low-carbon energy sources to heat and produce hot water in buildings. Other municipalities such as Richmond, North Vancouver and New Westminster are in the process of bringing on heat recovery projects, according to Pope.
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