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    200-kW Gas-fired Microturbines to power CHP and Cooling plant at planned T-Cell Therapy Manufacturing site

    March 15, 2022
    The monitoring system will oversee and control a 300-ton absorption chiller and all five heat recovery modules to help ensure peak performance. The system offers immediate backup power in the event of a utility outage
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    A manufacturer of T-cell therapies for the health care industry has ordered gas-fired microturbines for the combined cooling heat and power (CCHP) system at its planned facility in Maryland.

    Massachusetts-based TCR2 Therapeutics is planning to create an 85,000-square-foot cell therapy manufacturing facility in Rockville. The new CCHP system would feature Capstone Green Energy’s 200-kW C1000S gas-fueled microturbines.

    The overall 1-MW system also would include Capstone’s integrated heat recovery modules and an E-Finity m-Tim controller with remote monitoring.

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    The monitoring system will oversee and control a 300-ton absorption chiller and all five heat recovery modules to help ensure peak performance. The system offers immediate backup power in the event of a utility outage.

    The facility is expected to be commissioned in January 2023.

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    "Reliability is critical for this project," said Tom McGeehan, Vice President of Sales for E-Finity. "Any disruption to power can cost lives. Having the redundancy of the five 200 kW modular turbines that can operate independently of each other and in parallel are key. It is important that if one turbine is shut down for maintenance, the other four will continue to provide power."

    TCR2 is a clinical-stage cell therapy manufacturer. The technology seeks to boost natural T-cell immunity responses to fight tumors. T cells are white blood cells within the immunity response system.

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    (Rod Walton, senior editor for EnergyTech, is a 14-year veteran of covering the energy industry both as a newspaper and trade journalist. He can reached at [email protected]).

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    Rod Walton, EnergyTech Managing Editor | Senior Editor

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    Rod Walton has spent 15 years covering the energy industry as a newspaper and trade journalist. He formerly was energy writer and business editor at the Tulsa World. Later, he spent six years covering the electricity power sector for Pennwell and Clarion Events. He joined Endeavor and EnergyTech in November 2021.

    Walton earned his Bachelors degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma. His career stops include the Moore American, Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, Wagoner Tribune and Tulsa World. 

    EnergyTech is focused on the mission critical and large-scale energy users and their sustainability and resiliency goals. These include the commercial and industrial sectors, as well as the military, universities, data centers and microgrids. The C&I sectors together account for close to 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.

    He was named Managing Editor for Microgrid Knowledge and EnergyTech starting July 1, 2023

    Many large-scale energy users such as Fortune 500 companies, and mission-critical users such as military bases, universities, healthcare facilities, public safety and data centers, shifting their energy priorities to reach net-zero carbon goals within the coming decades. These include plans for renewable energy power purchase agreements, but also on-site resiliency projects such as microgrids, combined heat and power, rooftop solar, energy storage, digitalization and building efficiency upgrades.

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