Recently named an R&D 100 Award winner, the Energy Storing and Efficient Air Conditioner is a new class of cooling technology—one that separates dehumidification from active cooling and integrates energy storage to reduce costs, support grid stability, and maintain indoor comfort with significantly less energy.
When electric rates justify a complete shifting of air-conditioning loads, a conventionally sized chiller can be used with enough energy storage to shift the entire load into off-peak hours. Since the chiller does not run at all during the day, it results in significantly reduced demand charges.
For a building demanding 400 tons of air-conditioning, the advantages are exemplified by the installations below. A traditional chilled water system using 44°F (6.7°C) supply and 54°F (12.2°C) return will require 2.4 gallons per minute (GPM) of chilled water for each ton-hour of refrigeration.
Cool storage will reduce the average cost of energy consumed and can potentially reduce the energy consumption and initial capital cost of a cooling system compared to a conventional cooling system without cool storage.
If the air conditioning load could be shifted to the off-peak hours or leveled to the average load, less chiller capacity would be needed, 100 percent diversity would be achieved, and better-cost efficiency would result. The lower the Diversity Factor, the greater the potential benefit from a TES system. Consider for instance an example of a hotel.
For a conventional HVAC system, a 100-ton chiller must be specified to account for the peak demand, however, with the TES design depending upon the operating strategies a 50-ton chiller with 50% storage option shall provide the same results and meet the peak load requirements.
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When electric rates justify a complete shifting of air-conditioning loads, a conventionally sized chiller can be used with enough energy storage to shift the entire load into off-peak hours.
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