Sivabavanandan, Sivalingam (2005) Thermal energy storage application for load shifting and electrical demand management in Saudi Arabia. (PhD thesis), Kingston University, .
Abstract
Energy plays a major role in the economic prosperity of the Middle Eastern countries. Since the region is the largest oil producer of the world, it is less anticipated that these countries would ever be face with an energy crisis similar to the one experienced by the rest of the world during 1970s. The region was going through a chronic electricity demand supply crises with the demand for electrical energy in the rapidly expanding towns, cities and industries, far exceeding the power being made available. The relatively low electrical tariff also contributed to the increasing power demand due to wastage and uneconomical usage of electrical energy. The power generating companies and the Government authorities in the Middle East encouraged scientists and engineers to engage in ambitious Demand Side Management (DSM) programmes to develop novel ideas and new technologies to improve system efficiencies and to reduce energy consumption specifically in the field of refrigeration and air conditioning. The researcher began analysing the potential and possible applications of cool storage as a tool for Demand Side Management (DSM) in central air conditioning systems in the Middle East in 1991. The coupling of a refrigerated water storage tank or an ice storage tank to an air-cooled chiller plant, operated at night for load shifting, electrical peak demand reduction and energy conservation has been the major interest of investigation. The model project commissioned in 1996 used as a typical example to investigate electrical demand management for an office building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The aim of this research was to develop new modified comfort cooling system coupled with a cool storage or commonly known as Thermal Energy Storage (TES) network. The research was expected to establish certain favouring conditions in relation to technical, economical and environmental criteria to make the TES application a viable option in comfort cooling systems in commercial buildings in the Middle East for electrical demand reduction, load shifting and energy conservation.
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