TAKE ADVANTAGE OF NATURAL COOLING
ThinICE modules can be installed at high levels so that heat
goes up but doesn’t come back down. This cooling effect
can provide relief to building inhabitants or for electronic
equipment.
ENERGY
If the site is located in a region where there are large daynight
temperature swings, then it is possible to provide free
cooling by ventilating the room at night to freeze the PCM
modules by the morning. The size of the cooling machinery
could then be greatly reduced leading to lower emissions,
reduced maintenance costs and reduced operational costs.
For a standard 595x595mm ceiling tile, two ThinICE modules
can be installed offering up to 0.96 kWh/m2 of energy
storage. At an installed weight of up to 24kg/m2, most
suspended ceilings are more than capable of handling this
additional load. These are ideally fitted above a perforated
metallic suspended ceiling. For more lightweight systems
contact our sales team.
"ThinICE modules can be installed at
high levels so that heat goes up but doesn’t
come back down."
ACTIVE COOLING WITH A PASSIVE SAFETY
NET
It’s easy to upgrade these passive cooling systems into an
active chilled ceiling. This greatly improves the flexibility
of a conventional HVAC system. Should, for any reason the
HVAC machinery fails the frozen PCM modules offer an
uninterruptable emergency relief cooling system giving the
facility maintenance team an opportunity to react.
This also offers load-shifting capabilities.
Load shifting is a strategy, where a
proportion of the peak cooling capacity of
a system is shifted into off-peak periods.
The benefit of shifting cooling into the
nightly off-peak is twofold, firstly it
is possible to gain access to cheaper
electricity tariffs and secondly, the
refrigeration equipment can be operated
in lower ambient conditions leading to a
higher COP.
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