In conventional air conditioning system design, cooling loads are measured in terms of "Tons of Refrigeration" (or kW’s) required, or more simply "Tons”. For chilled water or ice storage systems, designers select chillers based on the “Ton-hours” of cooling required.
Cool storage systems are inherently more complicated than non-storage systems and extra time will be required to determine the optimum system for a given application. In conventional air conditioning system design, cooling loads are measured in terms of "Tons of Refrigeration" (or kW’s) required, or more simply "Tons”.
Thermal Energy Storage (TES) for space cooling, also known as cool storage, chill storage, or cool thermal storage, is a cost saving technique for allowing energy-intensive, electrically driven cooling equipment to be predominantly operated during off-peak hours when electricity rates are lower.
Liquid cooling thermal management systems are very effective for high energy density cases and can meet most cooling needs, although they may have problems such as coolant leakage and high energy consumption [ 28, 29 ]. Chen et al. [ 30] investigated the effect of coolant flow and contact area for roll bond liquid cold plates.
A cooling system that operates on a DC power supply such as a thermoelectric cooler would not be susceptible to black-outs or brown-outs, allowing the ambient temperature of the battery back-up system to be kept constant.
The ANSYS ICEM CFD is used for meshing in this study. Fig. 7 displays the employed mesh of the LIB modules and liquid cooling system in the ESS. Because full-size LIB ESS is too large to perform grid independence test, a single LFP battery module and the cooling plates attached to it are selected.