DISTRICT COOLING
Due to the advent of the industrial revolution and easy manageability, district energy is quite a famous mechanism now a day to handle energy needs and services at a central location. In spite of using conventional energy resources like electricity, coal, oil or natural gas, district energy plant can also transition to use renewable fuels such as biomass, geothermal, and combined heat and power.
District Cooling is an environmentally optimized cooling solution, using local, natural resources to produce cooling where and when it is needed.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
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A central plant chills water and then distributes it through an underground insulated pipe network to a customer’s building.
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A water circuit in the customer’s building circulates the cold water.
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Both networks are closed circuits and the cooling is passed through the energy transfer system.
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Air is then forced past the cold water tubing in the customer’s building to produce an A/C environment.
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The warmer water is returned to the central plant to be re-chilled and recycled.
HRS FUNKE offers quality heat exchangers in order to make this process more reliable, safe and cost effective. Our heat exchangers provide the energy efficient and optimum heat transfer solutions to provide cool air and water system covered within the range of a district energy plant. We may require heat exchangers as pressure breakers for high rise buildings within the district energy project scope.
Wherever heat or cold are transferred in building services engineering – we offer the quality plate heat exchangers for your application.
HRS FUNKE plate heat exchangers can act as district cooling substations as well as pressure/circuit breakers on intermediate levels, to counter the enormous vertical pressure created by the height of the high rise buildings or skyscrappers.
DISTRICT COOLING SYSTEM CAN:
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Improve efficiency of energy
- Protect environment
- Save space
- Improve urban view
- Re-use the heat from exhaust system
- Prevent disaster
- Reduce manpower for operation and maintenance
BENEFITS OF DISTRICT COOLING:
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Economies of scale due to the set up of centralized plants instead of individual cooling plants in each building.
- Reduced capital and operating costs, reduced air-conditioning set-up for each building.
- Cost benefits from substantially lower electricity usage and reduced maintenance
- Environment friendly; enable the use of alternative and cheaper fuels.
- Enhanced efficiency and reliability, space savings, flexibility of air-conditioning loads, considerably longer plant life.