Lovat Arms Hotel
Lovat Arms Hotel
- Location: Beauly, Inverness-shire
- Woodfuel usage: central heating and hot water for hotel
Lovat Arms is a landmark Victorian hotel, refurbished to a high standard with 29 modern bedrooms.
As part of the upgrade, the hotel has switched to renewable energy, with an environmentally-friendly wood fuel boiler providing the central heating and hot water. This modern and efficient system uses locally-supplied wood chips and has substantially reduced heating costs.
The supplier tips the wood chips into a purpose built 10 tonne underground fuel store. Delivery is quick and efficient with minimal disturbance at the site.
The woodfuel is fed directly from the pit to the boiler by a series of augers.
Facts and Figures
Note: figures are approximate
| Heating System | |
|---|---|
| Boiler manufacturer/model | Fröling Turbomatic |
| Fuel type | Wood chips |
| Fuel specification | Moisture content: <30% (M30) |
| Delivery, storage and handling | Chips are tipped into a underground fuel store, and fed to the boiler by a series of augers |
| Store capacity | 10 tonnes (115 m3) |
| Back-up/top-up system | Accumulator tanks (2 x 1800 litres) |
| Fuel Consumption and Savings | |
| Annual woodfuel use | 200 tonnes |
| Annual CO2 savings | 271 tonnes |
| Installation Funding | |
| Funding source | Highlands and Islands Enterprise (Inverness & East Highland), European Union Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Forestry Commission Scotland |
