scholarly journals Utilizing the solar thermal ice storage system in improving the energy, exergy, economic and environmental assessment of conventional air conditioning system

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Elhelw ◽  
Wael M. El-Maghlany ◽  
Mohamed Shawky Ismail ‎
Keyword(s):  
Energy Saving ◽  
Air Conditioning ◽  
Storage System ◽  
Water System ◽  
Maximum Energy ◽  
Ice Storage ◽  
Air Conditioning System ◽  
Air System ◽  
Alexandria City ◽  
Air Conditioning Systems

Abstract This paper introduces novel modification for conventional air conditioning systems through utilizing a thermal ice storage system integrated with solar panels. Alexandria and Aswan, cities in Egypt, are chosen to represent two climates for hot-humid and hot-dry climates respectively. The governing equations for both heat and mass transfer are theoretically solved. Exergy analysis is performed for the proposed solar-ice thermal storage system via determining exergy destruction on ice and solar components as well as the total destruction based on transient analysis. This study was carried out on two common types of air conditioning systems, an air handling unit and fan coil unit. Results showed that, solar-ice storage system is more effective approach in hot-humid climate than hot-dry climate and more efficient with all-water air conditioning system than with all-air conditioning system. The maximum energy saving is 205.16 GJ having a percent of 27.5% in August for all water system in case of Alexandria city and 224.67 GJ with a percent of 25.38% in August for all-water system in case of Aswan city. All air system simulation showed maximum energy saving of 175.05 GJ with a percent of 18.13 % in case of August for Alexandria and 175.45 GJ having a percentage of 17.43% in case of Aswan in August. Moreover, the all-water system achieved a reduction in CO2 emissions by 467 tons/year in Aswan city and 390 tons/year in case of Alexandria city. While these reductions decrease to be 435 and 353 tons/year when the all-air system used for the same two cities.

scholarly journals Systematic Method for the Energy-Saving Potential Calculation of Air-Conditioning Systems via Data Mining. Part I: Methodology

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Rongjiang Ma ◽  
Shen Yang ◽  
Xianlin Wang ◽  
Xi-Cheng Wang ◽  
Ming Shan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Air Conditioning ◽  
Storage System ◽  
Operation Mode ◽  
Systematic Method ◽  
Potential Analysis ◽  
Energy Saving Potential ◽  
Air Conditioning Systems

Air-conditioning systems contribute the most to energy consumption among building equipment. Hence, energy saving for air-conditioning systems would be the essence of reducing building energy consumption. The conventional energy-saving diagnosis method through observation, test, and identification (OTI) has several drawbacks such as time consumption and narrow focus. To overcome these problems, this study proposed a systematic method for energy-saving diagnosis in air-conditioning systems based on data mining. The method mainly includes seven steps: (1) data collection, (2) data preprocessing, (3) recognition of variable-speed equipment, (4) recognition of system operation mode, (5) regression analysis of energy consumption data, (6) constraints analysis of system running, and (7) energy-saving potential analysis. A case study with a complicated air-conditioning system coupled with an ice storage system demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method. Compared with the traditional OTI method, the data-mining-based method can provide a more comprehensive analysis of energy-saving potential with less time cost, although it strongly relies on data quality in all steps and lacks flexibility for diagnosing specific equipment for energy-saving potential analysis. The results can deepen the understanding of the operating data characteristics of air-conditioning systems.

Optimal Control Strategy for Ice-Storage System Based on Hourly Dynamic Load Simulation

2013 ◽  
Vol 671-674 ◽  
pp. 2515-2519
Author(s):  
Xue Mei Wang ◽  
Zhen Hai Wang ◽  
Xing Long Wu
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Control ◽  
Air Conditioning ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Storage System ◽  
Simulation Software ◽  
Ice Storage ◽  
Optimal Control Strategy ◽  
Air Conditioning System ◽  
Energy Plus ◽  
Load Simulation

This project aims to study the optimal control model of the ice-storage system which is theoretically close to the optimal control and also applicable to actual engineering. Using Energy Plus, the energy consumption simulation software, and the simple solution method of optimal control, researchers can analyze and compare the annual operation costs of the ice-storage air-conditioning system of a project in Beijing under different control strategies. Researchers obtained the power rates of the air-conditioning system in the office building under the conditions of chiller-priority and optimal contro1 throughout the cooling season. Through analysis and comparison, they find that after the implementation of optimal control, the annually saved power bills mainly result from non-design conditions, especially in the transitional seasons.

Air Conditioning System Water Quality and Equipment Condition Investigation and Analysis of Energy Saving Measures

2012 ◽  
Vol 516-517 ◽  
pp. 1224-1228
Author(s):  
Na Liang ◽  
Rui Li
Keyword(s):  
Energy Saving ◽  
Air Conditioning ◽  
Water System ◽  
Building Energy ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Air Conditioning System ◽  
Effective Utilization ◽  
Energy Saving Potential ◽  
Central Air Conditioning ◽  
Points Of View

Due to energy reserves reduces gradually and uneven distribution, all countries pay more and more attention to energy saving and improve the effective utilization of energy, China also attaches great important to this. Energy saving of buildings is a necessary development trend. Air conditioning system as a large important part of building energy consumption has a huge energy-saving potential. This article mainly introduced the related strategies of energy saving in central air conditioning water system from the following three points of view: the water treatment, the cooling tower, and the variable frequency pump.

A multi-objective optimization operation strategy for ice-storage air-conditioning system based on improved firefly algorithm

2021 ◽  
pp. 014362442110455
Author(s):  
Xinwei Zhou ◽  
Junqi Yu ◽  
Wanhu Zhang ◽  
Anjun Zhao ◽  
Min Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Energy Saving ◽  
Economic Benefit ◽  
Air Conditioning ◽  
Firefly Algorithm ◽  
Optimal Operation ◽  
Ice Storage ◽  
Operation Strategy ◽  
Multi Objective Optimization ◽  
Air Conditioning System ◽  
Improved Firefly Algorithm

Reasonable distribution of cooling load between chiller and ice tank is the key to realize the economical and energy-saving operation of ice-storage air-conditioning (ISAC) system. A multi-objective optimization model based on improved firefly algorithm (IFA) was established in this study to fully exploit the energy-saving potential and economic benefit of the ISAC system. The proposed model took the partial load rate of each chiller and the cooling ratio of the ice tank as optimization variables, and the lowest energy consumption loss rate and the lowest operating cost of the ISAC system were calculated. Chaotic logic self-mapping was used to initialize population to avoid falling into local optimum, and Cauchy mutation was used to increase the population’s diversity to improve the algorithm’s global search ability. The experimental results show that compared with the operation strategy based on constant proportion, particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm, and firefly algorithm (FA), the optimal operation strategy based on IFA can achieve more significant energy-saving and economic benefits. Meanwhile, the convergence accuracy and stability of the algorithm are significantly improved. Practical application: The optimized operation strategy of the ice-storage air-conditioning system can reduce energy loss and operating costs. The traditional operation strategies have the problems of low optimization precision and poor optimization effect. Therefore, this study presents an optimal operation strategy based on IFA. The convergence accuracy and stability of the algorithm are increased after the algorithm is improved. The operation strategy can get the maximum energy-saving effect and economic benefit of the ISAC system.

Energy-Saving Monitoring System of Central Air-Conditioning Based on Dynamic Load

2014 ◽  
Vol 1039 ◽  
pp. 409-414
Author(s):  
Tao Han ◽  
Xue Feng Lai ◽  
Liang Wen Yan ◽  
Zai Feng Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Energy Saving ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Dynamic Load ◽  
Pid Control ◽  
Air Conditioning ◽  
Water System ◽  
Air Conditioning System ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Hardware System ◽  
Central Air Conditioning

This paper introduces the components of central air-conditioning system and compares the advantages and disadvantages of the PID control and fuzzy control.Fuzzy control theory and inverter technology are combined to design the Energy-Saving Monitoring System based on the fuzzy control box of STM32F103C8T6,Siemens S7-200 PLC, ABB inverter as the hardware system and interfaces configuration of KingView as the software. Experimental results show that the water system can be variable flow controlled based on the dynamic load, central air-conditioning energy efficiency the COP has greatly improved under the premise of ensuring the comfort of central air-conditioning.

Analysis on Energy Saving Factors and Research on Energy Efficiency Evaluation Indexes of Ventilation and Air Conditioning System in the Underground Engineering

2013 ◽  
Vol 291-294 ◽  
pp. 682-687
Author(s):  
Shi Bin Geng ◽  
Sha Sha Chen ◽  
Ming Xing Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Air Conditioning ◽  
Water System ◽  
Efficiency Evaluation ◽  
Underground Engineering ◽  
Air Conditioning System ◽  
Evaluation Indexes ◽  
Heat System ◽  
Energy Efficiency Evaluation

This paper makes comprehensive analysis on energy saving factors of ventilation and air conditioning system in the underground engineering mainly from five aspects ,such as the overall scheme, cold - heat system, air system, water system and operation management . And based on this, furthermore, each energy saving factor is quantified , the energy efficiency evaluation indexes of each subsystem is studied .So that it provides a concrete and feasible evaluation index and its basic calculation method for energy-saving evaluation, diagnosis of energy saving and energy saving reconstruction work.

Comparison study of air mixing modes in liquid desiccant based all-air air conditioning systems

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fu Xiao ◽  
XiaoFeng Niu
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Air Conditioning ◽  
Coefficient Of Performance ◽  
Liquid Desiccant ◽  
Total Energy Consumption ◽  
Air Conditioning System ◽  
Operation Conditions ◽  
Air System ◽  
Air Mixing ◽  
Air Conditioning Systems

Liquid desiccant is an energy-saving, environmentally friendly and healthy means of air dehumidification. A liquid desiccant-based all-air air conditioning system is studied by simulation. Two different modes of air mixing between the return air and the fresh air are compared, that is mixing before and mixing after the liquid desiccant dehumidifier, respectively. System performance and total energy consumption of the two modes under different operation conditions are obtained. The results show that mixing air after dehumidification consumes less energy than mixing air before dehumidification. Coefficient of performance (COP) of the all-air system with air mixing after dehumidification is higher. The differences of COP and energy consumption between the two air mixing modes increase when the outdoor air temperature and relative humidity increase. Practical application: Liquid desiccant based all-air system is quite suitable for museums, libraries and computer centres where water is not allowed to enter the space for property safety and strict thermal-hygrometric control is necessary. The results of this paper provide guidelines on the selection of air mixing modes in liquid desiccant-based all-air systems, considering energy consumption and system COP.

Energy Conservation Analysis for Air Conditioning System in Rail Transit Stations

2014 ◽  
Vol 494-495 ◽  
pp. 1674-1677
Author(s):  
Bing Xu ◽  
Fang Hong Yuan ◽  
Bao Guo Zheng ◽  
Zhong Jin Shi ◽  
Yi Huan Hu
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Conservation ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Control Strategy ◽  
Air Conditioning ◽  
Rail Transit ◽  
Air Conditioning System ◽  
Conservation Analysis ◽  
Air Conditioning Systems ◽  
Reducing Energy

This article discusses energy conservation for air conditioning systems in rail transit stations. At first, the paper analyzes the energy consumption condition in the air conditioning systems in rail transit stations. Then, it discusses application of appropriate control strategy for reducing energy consumption. In the end, the paper calculates effiency and amount of the energy saving based on the control strategy.

Study on the Current Situation of Economic Analysis of Ice Storage Air-Conditioning System

2014 ◽  
Vol 580-583 ◽  
pp. 2441-2446
Author(s):  
Yu Na Li ◽  
Si Fu Wang ◽  
Tu Zhai Lv ◽  
Shao Fei Lang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Evaluation ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Air Conditioning ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Ice Storage ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Air Conditioning System ◽  
Air Conditioning Systems ◽  
The Impact

Ice storage air-conditioning system has incomparable advantages than a lot of of conventional air-conditioning system example for "peak shifting and valley filling". The ice storage air-conditioning systems on the research states of the economic analysis are summed up from the building of economic analysis model,the introduction of the special systems , as well as the impact of economic factors in this paper. This paper outlines several main methods about economic evaluation of the ice storage air-conditioning systems,points out some issumes in the course of the study and some places needing to improve.

Some Villas Solar Heating and Air Conditioning System Design of Double-Source Heat Pump Programmer

2012 ◽  
Vol 512-515 ◽  
pp. 168-171
Author(s):  
Wei Yu ◽  
Feng Chen ◽  
Hong Bo Li
Keyword(s):  
Energy Saving ◽  
Heat Pump ◽  
Air Conditioning ◽  
Heating System ◽  
Time Sharing ◽  
Geothermal Heat ◽  
Air Conditioning System ◽  
Geothermal Heat Pump ◽  
Air Conditioning Systems ◽  
Building Heat

This article on a villas in Langfang city, Hebei province, heating and air conditioning systems. According to the owners of the double requirement of energy saving and environmental protection to owners selection of solar energy and geothermal heat pump heating system combined. To better achieve heating and air conditioning energy saving operation of villas, the system can be run by optimizing the control scheme, time-sharing partition building heat adjustment.

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