District cooling gets hot
Abstract
Utilities across the country are adopting cool storage methods, such as ice-storage and chilled-water tanks, as an economical and environmentally safe way to provide cooling for cities and towns. The use of district cooling, in which cold water or steam is pumped to absorption chillers and then to buildings via a central community chiller plant, is growing strongly in the US. In Chicago, San Diego, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and elsewhere, independent district-energy companies and utilities are refurbishing neglected district-heating systems and adding district cooling, a technology first developed approximately 35 years ago.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 276232
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal Name:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 118; Journal Issue: 7; Other Information: PBD: Jul 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; 25 ENERGY STORAGE; URBAN AREAS; DISTRICT COOLING; COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS; AIR CONDITIONING; CENTRAL HEATING PLANTS; COLD STORAGE; HEAT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; COGENERATION; DUAL-PURPOSE POWER PLANTS
Citation Formats
Seeley, R S. District cooling gets hot. United States: N. p., 1996.
Web.
Seeley, R S. District cooling gets hot. United States.
Seeley, R S. 1996.
"District cooling gets hot". United States.
@article{osti_276232,
title = {District cooling gets hot},
author = {Seeley, R S},
abstractNote = {Utilities across the country are adopting cool storage methods, such as ice-storage and chilled-water tanks, as an economical and environmentally safe way to provide cooling for cities and towns. The use of district cooling, in which cold water or steam is pumped to absorption chillers and then to buildings via a central community chiller plant, is growing strongly in the US. In Chicago, San Diego, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and elsewhere, independent district-energy companies and utilities are refurbishing neglected district-heating systems and adding district cooling, a technology first developed approximately 35 years ago.},
doi = {},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/276232},
journal = {Mechanical Engineering},
number = 7,
volume = 118,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1996},
month = {Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1996}
}
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