Villa Castagnola Hotel
Villa Castagnola Hotel

Villa Castagnola Hotel

The Villa Castagnola in Lugano is one of Switzerland’s most renowned five-star hotels.
Situated on the shore of Lago Maggiore, the venue boasts an impressive garden with subtropical plants and a charming structure When the hotel’s boiler room had to be revamped, two TRIGON® XL gas boilers made the cut.
 

Villa Castagnola Hotel in Lugano, Switzerland.

 

The Challenge

Being a historic hotel, the Villa Castagnola still uses a great many cast-iron radiators, which necessitates high flow temperatures. The old setup with four 250kW gas boilers had to be replaced as smoothly as possible to avoid any disturbance to the guests. Therefore, the project was executed in two consecutive years, each time replacing two old boilers with a new one.

 

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Five-star hospitality demands reliability and quality, which ELCO can provide.

 

Featured Products

The TRIGON® XL represents a significant step forward in heating technology. 

With extremely flexible configurations, clever design and a range of models available, the boiler is perfect for a variety of commercial applications. Plus, extensive cascade arrangements of up to 8 boilers with a combined output of 4,560kW are possible.

 

 Unique heat exchanger with HEX³ geometry for class leading NOx and CO emissions

 Extremely high efficiency

 Robust stainless steel heat exchanger

 Low water content boiler

 Compact dimensions

 Can be easily dismantled and reassembled onsite

 

 

The plant scheme

 TRIGON® XL 500 

 TRIGON® XL 570 

 REMOCON NET

 
The ELCO solution: TRIGON XL 500

The ELCO solution

 

The cascade with one TRIGON® XL 500 and one TRIGON® XL 570 supplies heat for the entire hotel. The new boilers were connected to the existing setup in the boiler room. Enough heat can be generated even with just one boiler running. Hot water is generated using a separate heat pump.

A complete service

In 2020, Villa Castagnola implemented an ambitious remodeling of its entire heating system to lower CO2 emissions and fossil fuel usage. Due to the cast-iron radiators, the hotel is still reliant on gas to provide heating. Using ELCO’s advanced, low-emission boilers, the CO2 footprint could be substantially lowered.

 

Benefits

TRIGON® XL 500

 

75 litres
For single boiler heat exchanger
29 mg/kWh
NOx level (annual emission EN15502)
110.4%
Annual efficiency (NNG 40/30ºC)
 

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