UTC Power’s super-efficient, ultra low emission PureComfort® Model 240M solution provides cooling, heating and on-site power for East Hartford High School. The system also provides backup power in the event of an emergency – allowing the school to qualify as a place of refuge. Efficiency gains and backup power benefits ensure significant cost savings for the school as well.

The PureComfort® solution is a combination of a doubleeffect absorption chiller from Carrier Corporation, UTC Power’s sister company, and four 60-kilowatt microturbines. It is the industry’s first integrated microturbine and double-effect absorption chiller energy solution.


 Energy Productivity

The exhaust heat from the natural gas-powered microturbines is collected in a manifold and used to drive the double-effect absorption chiller, enabling the PureComfort® Model 240M solution to achieve an overall fuel utilization rate of more than 80 percent, far greater than the 33 percent typical of a central powerplant providing grid power. With an efficiency more than twice that of traditional power sources, the PureComfort® solution ensures that East Hartford High School is conserving energy and saving money. 

The PureComfort® solution installed at East Hartford High School provides up to 120 RT of space cooling or up to 1,100 MBH of space heating and up to 240 kilowatts of power year round. This solution provides heating and cooling simultaneously and is able to maximize its efficiency by using partial heating and cooling throughout the year.

“The PureComfort® solution is very reliable, provides clean energy and operates very efficiently. After suffering a catastrophic loss to our power and cooling plants, we turned to a trusted leader in the industry, UTC Power. We also look forward to installing a PureComfort® system at our middle school.”

Albert Costa
Director of Facilities
East Hartford School District


 Energy Security

The PureComfort® solution is designed to operate in parallel to and independently from the grid. With backup power available in minutes, the system provides safety and security to the students and the community.


 Energy Responsibility

	East Hartford High School is proving that sustainability makes economic sense. While reducing its carbon footprint, it’s also conserving natural resources. The UTC Power PureComfort® system will reduce this school's carbon footprint by 460 tons each year. To achieve the same positive environmental impact, 90 acres* of forest would need to be planted.
	The power generated by a megawatt of PureComfort® systems saves over 4 million gallons** of water each year that would otherwise be wasted by conventional electrical generation. That’s enough water to fill more than 6 Olympic-size swimming pools. Water conservation is especially important as humanity battles to conserve precious water resources.
	Reduction of harmful emissions like nitrogen oxides (NOx), is yet another environmental benefit of  PureComfort®  system  technology. NOx emissions will be reduced at East Hartford High School by 3 tons each year, which equates to the same environmental benefit as removing 170 cars*** from the road.