Sausan Al-Riyami
IATI at the Research Council (TRC), Sultanate of Oman.
Title: Hybrid Cooling Using Green Energy as Heat Sources and Storage System for a Building at Innovation Park Muscat
Biography
Biography: Sausan Al-Riyami
Abstract
Cooling for a building is a critical issue for hot climate countries such as Sultanate of Oman. Electricity driven chillers commonly used for this pupose. However, they consume remarkable electrical energy compared with thermal driven chillers. This project aims to develop a worldwide unique concept for a continuously operating hybrid cooling system with a thermally driven chiller based on renewable energy resources. The energy for a sustainable cold supply can be developed from heat energy sources. For hot country like Oman solar heat supply is definetly the best option with an expected fluctuating. In order to over come this challenge and using the wondeful geological of Oman a geothermal heat by studing the potential of the energy. Therefore, a combination of both, called hybrid cooling, might provide an excellent solution of this challenge. For the stublization of the system it is advisable to foresee storage systems which can be realized in the underground. The challenge is to investigate, to develop, and to establish a combined system of geothermal and solar heat and an underground storage system together with specific technical solutions of absorption chillers adapted to the different sources. A demonstrator of such an innovative system will be realized at the end of the the project and installed at the one of the building of the Innoviation Park Musct (IPM) in Oman.The realization will present a great progress of an environmentally friendly and sustainable energy option especially for hot climate countries.