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General information |
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| Name |
Solar cooling for data center
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| Country installed |
South Africa
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| Address |
MTN Innovation Center, 216, 14th Avenue, Johannesburg
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| Industry sector, NACE code |
J - Information and communication
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| Solar thermal system owner / operator |
REACH Renewable (Pty) Ltd.
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| Solar thermal engineering company |
Industrial Solar GmbH
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| Process integration engineering company |
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| Year of operation start |
2014
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Technical parameters |
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| Collector technology |
fresnel collector
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| Collector name |
LF-11
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| Installed collector area (gross), m² |
678.0
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| Installed collector area (aperture), m² |
484.0
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| Installed collector area (absorber), m² |
18.5
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| Installed thermal power (actual), kWth |
272.0
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| Solar collector loop heat transfer fluid |
water
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| Solar energy storage |
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| Storage volume, m³ |
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| Kind of conventional heat source |
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| Kind of fuel used |
fuel oil
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Process |
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| Solar thermal energy used for |
Cooling of data center for a telecommunication company
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| Unit operation |
cooling processes
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| Point of Solar Heat Integration |
B2) Heating of process medium (please specify)
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| --> Integration how and where |
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| --> Temperature range process |
7 ºC / 12 ºC
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| --> Temperature range solar loop (min/max), C° |
180 ºC
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Economic parameters |
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| Total investment costs (excl. VAT), € |
1.00
(Turnkey costs including solar collectors, piping, support construction, storage, design, commissioning reduced with subsidies)
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| Solar loop (excl. VAT), € |
(Solar collectors, piping, support construction)
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| Solar energy storage (excl. VAT), € |
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| Others (excl. VAT), € |
(Design, commissioning, others)
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| Process integration (excl. VAT), € |
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| Subsidy, € or % of total investment costs |
n/a
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| Cost for fuel replaced, €/MWhfuel |
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| Calculated solar thermal system life time, a |
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| Annual useful solar heat delivery, MWh/a |
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| Specific annual useful solar heat delivery, MWh/am² |
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| Specific investment costs, €/m² |
0.0
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| Solar fraction, % |
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Lessons learned |
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| Initiative |
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| Integration methodology |
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| Construction / Commissioning |
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Source |
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| Author |
Irapuã Santos Ribeiro
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| Company of author |
Industrial Solar GmbH
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| E-mail |
info@industrial-solar.de
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| Phone |
+49 761 767 111 0
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| Homepage |
http://www.industrial-solar.de
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