Thermal Energy Storage System

Thermal Energy Storage system
By
Hüseyin DUMAN
Furkan ÖZDEMİR
Kaan
CONTENTS
Introduction To TESS
What does Thermal Energy Storage (TES) mean?
Thermal energy storage (TES) refers to the technology that allows the
transfer and storage of heat energy or, alternatively, energy from ice or
cold air or water. This method is built into new technologies that
complement energy solutions such as solar and hydro
WHY TRHERMAL ENERGY STORAGE ? (With Example)
 Thermal energy storage is like a battery for a building’s air-conditioning system. It uses standard
cooling equipment, plus an energy storage tank to shift all or aportion of a building’s cooling needs to
off-peak, night time hours. During off-peak hours, ice is made and stored inside IceBank energy
storage tanks. The stored ice is then used to cool the building occupants the next day.
 Ice at Party, A Simple Example

 Imagine holding a party. You’re not likely to make ice the moment people arrive. You couldn’t make it
fast enough. You’d buy or make ice ahead of time, store it in your freezer, and use it as needed. The
promise of thermal energy storage is similar, with this important stipulation. You still make the ice
ahead of time, at night. But, the electricity you use to make that ice, is far less expensive at night than
it is during the day.
How Thermal Energy Storage Works
Step 1
 During night time, off-peak hours, water that contains 25% ethylene or propylene glycol is cooled
by a chiller. That solution circulates inside the heat exchanger within the IceBank tank, freezing
95% of the water that surrounds the heat exchanger inside the tank. The water surrounding the
heat exchanger never leaves the tank. Step 2
 Ice is created uniformly inside the IceBank tank via CALMAC’s, counter-flow-heat exchanger tubes.
As ice forms, water still moves freely, which prevents damage to the tank. To fully charge an
IceBank tank takes from six to 12 hours.
 Step 3
 During the day-time on peak hours, the glycol solution circulates through the ice storage tanks to
deliver the stored energy to the building to augment or offset electric chiller cooling. The cold
glycol is delivered at the proper temperature to the cooling coil in an air handler.
 Step 4
 A fan blows air over the coils to deliver cooling to the occupant spaces. People feel cool and
comfortable and never know ice storage is being used to save money on cooling costs.
Benefits of Thermal Energy Storage
 The main segment of thermal energy storage has been in the form of cool storage for
space air conditioning. Such form of cooling is usually chiller based systems in which the
refrigerator tools or equipment create chilled water or ice at the night time and this is
used the following day to cool the commercial buildings. There are many benefits of
thermal energy storage and let's we talk about these benefits
 1. Cost Savings
 One of the major benefits of thermal energy storage is that it helps to save on electricity
bill. It is a fact that for most of the organizations in the world the maximum expenditure
done is on electricity bills. What thermal energy storage does is that it helps to bring this
cost down and can also reduce or even eliminate peak demand. Most thermal energy
storage chillers contribute to about one-third of the building’s peak electricity demand
and hence can be considered very useful and advantageous.
2. Green Building Certification
 Those buildings which are identified as green buildings or have that certificate enjoy a
large range of value enhancements. They buildings often enjoy benefits like reduction in
operating costs, higher value of resale, improved productivity of workers and greater
occupancy. Thermal energy storage is also capable of earning 2-4 credits in the category of
LEED atmosphere and energy.
3. Grid Benefits
 Another major benefit of thermal energy storage is that it helps to address air conditioning
loads which are the single biggest contributor to grid stress of electricity utility. The load
factors are now down to 50 percent from 70 percent that were present during the 60s and
the 70s.
 This basically means that half of the utility producing capability lies idle for the large part
of the year and is required only on some occasions and especially during the periods of air
conditioning demands. This underutilization of creating the required infrastructure is an
economic burden which all of us are continuously paying for. But thermal energy storage
removes the peak load burden and hence offers grid benefits
4. Highly Versatile
 Another major and most important benefit of thermal energy storage is that it is highly
versatile. This method offers incredible high round trip efficiency and is capable of
recovering about 99% of the stored cooling. Another benefit that it offers is that it helps to
avoid the vibrations of the chiller and also the noise from noise sensitive installations.
 This method also offers the amazing facility of emergency cooling for mission critical
loads and helps to preserve the limited electric power capacity for various critical
functions. Thermal energy storage can also be discharged for both long and short
durations.

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