Thermal Energy Storage

Webinar: Size Thermal Energy Storage for District Cooling Plants

We are in the middle of an energy crisis. After decades of unprecedented development in all corners of the globe, the energy demands are now extremely high. Economic development and population growth are the main drivers of this demand. The future of energy consumption is dependent on a number of fa[..]
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Thermal Energy Storage

Service Continuity for Critical Cooling Applications: ATS & HSBT

The electrical system design of a cooling plant is deeply influenced by its final application. We can find a wide range of cooling applications in different industrial sectors in which cooling plays a vital role: Power generation, Oil & Gas, Data Centers, Medical facilities, Chemical plants… In [..]
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Thermal Energy Storage

Operational considerations of TES tanks: design and service

Thermal energy storage (TES) using chilled water is a popular solution for facilities across the globe because of low operating and maintenance costs as well as minimal complexity. As long as there is enough space to accommodate the sizeable tanks, any building can use this method. The operation of [..]
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District Cooling

ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS IN COOLING PLANTS

High temperatures can generate production problems in industrial plants or uncomfortable environment in public or private edifications. In order to avoid these situations more efficiently, cooling plants are the solution. ARANER can supply high quality cooling plants with proven solutions in:
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Thermal Energy Storage

Storage tank material selection: What material is better?

Thermal Energy Storage (TES) system comprises of storage medium, a tank, a packaged chiller/built-up refrigeration system, and interconnecting piping, pumps, and controls. The basic concept of any TES system is that chillers cool water during off-peak hours and then the cooled water is stored in tan[..]
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Turbine Inlet Air Cooling

Advances in gas turbine technology: Combined Cycle Power Plants

The change in power generation market over the last few years has been astounding. Market diversification has been very influential in Europe and other regional markets as feed-in prices decline and subsidization of renewable energy generation grows. Utilities and regulators have obviously been at t[..]
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Turbine Inlet Air Cooling

Turbine Inlet Air Cooling Systems: Boosting Power and Money

The technical benefits of Turbine Inlet Air Cooling systems has been widely discussed in many publications and are very well known for the Owners, the OEMs and the EPC Contractors. However, as any other engineering solution, the technical benefits must be associated to some economic benefits. We are[..]
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Refrigeration

Fouling in heat exchangers: reduce deposit accumulation

Heat exchangers are totally necessary in the refrigeration cycle: as shown in the diagram below, two out of the four basic steps in the refrigerant cycle are heat exchangers! Their operation affects greatly to the overall plant efficiency, so their maintenance is very important. Heat exchangers, lik[..]
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Turbine Inlet Air Cooling, Refrigeration

The importance of electrical power quality

What is power quality? Power quality is not an easy term to define, as there are many factors that could be involved in the definition, but in broad terms power quality is usually related to following concepts:
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Refrigeration

Centrifugal pump design and applications

Most of the industrial processes include the conduction of fluids or energy transfer. This is possible thanks to the centrifugal pumps which are the most popular turbomachinery. The growth and improvement of the industrial processes have been always linked to the improvements in the pumping equipmen[..]
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Thermal Energy Storage

Thermal Energy Storage Technologies Comparison

Thermal energy storage (TES) is the process of collecting thermal energy for future use. Thermal energy storage operates like a battery, using a combination of cooling equipment and energy storage tank to transfer cooling production to off-peak hours, usually nighttime. Ice or chilled water that is [..]
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Refrigeration

Which factors will affect the chiller sizing process?

An industrial chiller protects processing equipment despite costing a small fraction of most of these facilities. It also increases production, specifically enhancing accuracy and speed of production in food, beverage, and pharmaceutical among other industries. Therefore, it is a no brainer that the[..]
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