Cooling potential for hot climates by utilizing thermal management of compressed air energy storage systems
Abstract This work presents findings on utilizing the expansion stage of compressed air energy storage systems for air conditioning purposes. The proposed setup is an ancillary installation to an existing compressed air energy storage setup and is used to produce chilled water at temperatures as low...
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| author | Abdul Hai Alami Mehmet Orhan Rashid Al Rashid Ahmad Yasin Ali Radwan Mohamad Ayoub Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem Adnan Alashkar |
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| description | Abstract This work presents findings on utilizing the expansion stage of compressed air energy storage systems for air conditioning purposes. The proposed setup is an ancillary installation to an existing compressed air energy storage setup and is used to produce chilled water at temperatures as low as 5 °C. An experimental setup for the ancillary system has been built with appropriate telemetric devices to measure the temporal temperature variation, which consequently can be used to calculate the heat transfer and available cooling capacity. The system is compared to commercially available compression cooling air conditioners, and the potential of replacing them is promising, as one ton of conventional cooling can be replaced with a 500-L (0.5 m3) air tank at 20 bar operating for an hour. More tanks can be added to extend the operational viability of the system, which is also serving the original purpose of storing energy from grid excess or from solar photovoltaic panels. The thermal management has had the added benefit of increasing the roundtrip efficiency of the storage system from 31.4 to 35.2%, along with handling a portion of the cooling load. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0665825b288148aaa477105522d0b9ee2022-12-25T12:14:55ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222022-12-0112111010.1038/s41598-022-26666-1Cooling potential for hot climates by utilizing thermal management of compressed air energy storage systemsAbdul Hai Alami0Mehmet Orhan1Rashid Al Rashid2Ahmad Yasin3Ali Radwan4Mohamad Ayoub5Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem6Adnan Alashkar7Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering Department, University of SharjahDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, American University of SharjahDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, American University of SharjahSustainable Energy and Power Systems Research Centre, RISE, University of SharjahSustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering Department, University of SharjahSustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering Department, University of SharjahSustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering Department, University of SharjahMaterials Science and Engineering PhD Program, American University of SharjahAbstract This work presents findings on utilizing the expansion stage of compressed air energy storage systems for air conditioning purposes. The proposed setup is an ancillary installation to an existing compressed air energy storage setup and is used to produce chilled water at temperatures as low as 5 °C. An experimental setup for the ancillary system has been built with appropriate telemetric devices to measure the temporal temperature variation, which consequently can be used to calculate the heat transfer and available cooling capacity. The system is compared to commercially available compression cooling air conditioners, and the potential of replacing them is promising, as one ton of conventional cooling can be replaced with a 500-L (0.5 m3) air tank at 20 bar operating for an hour. More tanks can be added to extend the operational viability of the system, which is also serving the original purpose of storing energy from grid excess or from solar photovoltaic panels. The thermal management has had the added benefit of increasing the roundtrip efficiency of the storage system from 31.4 to 35.2%, along with handling a portion of the cooling load.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26666-1 |
| spellingShingle | Abdul Hai Alami Mehmet Orhan Rashid Al Rashid Ahmad Yasin Ali Radwan Mohamad Ayoub Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem Adnan Alashkar Cooling potential for hot climates by utilizing thermal management of compressed air energy storage systems Scientific Reports |
| title | Cooling potential for hot climates by utilizing thermal management of compressed air energy storage systems |
| title_full | Cooling potential for hot climates by utilizing thermal management of compressed air energy storage systems |
| title_fullStr | Cooling potential for hot climates by utilizing thermal management of compressed air energy storage systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cooling potential for hot climates by utilizing thermal management of compressed air energy storage systems |
| title_short | Cooling potential for hot climates by utilizing thermal management of compressed air energy storage systems |
| title_sort | cooling potential for hot climates by utilizing thermal management of compressed air energy storage systems |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26666-1 |
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