Let's check out the Middle East.
The basic idea of this project is to use the natural chimney effect. Such so-called wind towers have been used for centuries for ventilating buildings naturally in the Middle East. To realize this, we have integrated an up-blast cooling tower in the extension of our high-bay storage, which can do much more than just cooling.
A tower for cooling, saving energy and generating electricity - sounds almost like a fairy tale ...
By means of this updraft cooling tower, the heat load generated by the compressors and after-compressors as well as partial amounts of process off-heat and production cooling can be dissipated fan- and CO2-free with the help of natural buoyancy. The reduced load on the production cooling systems ensures further energy savings.
The energy released by buoyancy can be converted into electrical power in a second step by a wind turbine located above the updraft shaft.
... with a fantastic outcome.
The fantastic level of innovation of this plant is that there is still no plant in the world that consistently attempts to dissipate off-heat in an energy-saving way by means of natural buoyancy, which also has the possibility of generating electrical power in the process and thus guaranteeing the function and stability of the plant's cooling system.
Environmental benefits result
- from off-heat being used for hall heating (savings on fossil fuels, reduction of CO2 emissions)
- from energy savings compared to conventional cooling towers
- from adiabatic pre-cooling of the air, which requires almost exclusively water
- from using natural buoyancy of the updraft shaft (no fans)
- from the elimination of chemicals used in conventional cooling towers
- from noise reduction due to the elimination of fans and pumps of a conventional cooling tower
- and from the possible recovery of electrical energy
