Cooling solutions with HeatTank

1. Customer segments – Cooling solutions

- Office, hotel and commercial buildings
- Data centers, bitcoin mines, server rooms
- Cooling of industrial processes
- District cooling systems - Local cooling energy storage and management

2. Benefits:
- Up to 90% smaller storage volume for cooling energy
- 20-50% savings in energy consumption and carbon footprint
- Quick return of investment
- Management - Virtual control of cooling systems - e.g. air conditioning
- Significant reduction in peak performance
- Installation scenarios that were previously unimaginable - for renovation and new installations
- Compact - can be moved through an 80cm door. Advantageous capacity / volume
and capacity / weight ratio
- Sustainable - lifetime of the tank and material around 20 years - 10,000+ cycle
- Biomaterials - PCM harmless to the environment and humans
- Increased operational safety - HeatTank as replacement cooling in an emergency

3. Methods of increasing efficiency

- Free cooling
- Cooling energy storage
- Indirect control of the cooling generator

Free Cooling via HeatTank Extended Free Cooling via Optimized cooling energy
storing of the cooling energy generation via cooling
and via the control of cooling device control and via
energy consumption cooling energy storage
Annual electricity consumption of the various systems: Extended Free-Cooling via time-shifting &
Traditional Free-Cooling & Standard cooling system
Standard cooling system
Lowest-cost Cooling energy production & Extended
Traditional Free-Cooling & Standard cooling system Free-Cooling via time-shifting &
Traditional Free-Cooling & Standard cooling system

4. Optimal Project size – Return on Investment

- Data center or similar cooling operation with 24/7 cooling: cooling capacity minimum 20kW, or 5
* 5kW
- Office or commercial building - cooling: cooling capacity minimum 100kW, or from an annual
power consumption of minimum 60.000-80.000 kWh
- Plan and system analysis for all possible projects by HeatVentors engineers
Other arguments for the HeatTank, such as reducing the peak performance or increasing
operational reliability, etc. can also justify installation in smaller cooling systems.
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 Cooling solutions with HeatTank

4. Cooling systems and schematics

Cooling system Operation HeatTank applicable
incl. free cooling
Heat pump or liquid chiller Air - Water Direct - HT-XX-1

Heat pump or liquid chiller Water - Water Direct - HT-XX-1

Absorption heat pump Water + Air - Water Direct - HT-XX-1

Split air conditioner Air - Air Indirect - HT-XX-2

- In systems with cooling liquid, the tanks can be switched on directly with their one pipe coil
- HT-25-1, HT-50-1. The management of the free cooling energy is also possible.
- HeatTanks with two pipe coils - HT-25-2, HT-50-2 - are mainly used for indirect connection to
split air conditioning systems. These can also be used as heat exchangers and heat stores
between two circuits in more complex systems.

HeatTank XX-2 in cooling a server room HeatTank XX-1 in a cooling circuit

indirectly connected to a split air conditioner wit an air-water liquid chiller

5. HeatTank models in serial production

Type HeatTank 25-1 HeatTank 25-2 HeatTank 50-1 HeatTank 50-2
Capacity [kWh]* 20-35 20-35 45-65 45-65
Max performance [kW] 100 100 200 200
External volume [m3] 0,91 1,05 1,77 1,94
PCM volume [m3] 0,48 0,55 0,91 0,98
Height with insulation [mm] 1436 1436 1960 1960
Width with insulation [mm] 648 745 770 770
Length with insulation [mm] 979 979 1175 1286
Heat exchanger circuits [nr.] 1 2 1 2
Connections [DN] 28 28 42 42
Empty weight [kg] 275 295 485 515
Total weight [kg] 650-900 700-980 1100-1450 1150-1700
*Capacity depending on the PCM used.

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 Energy saving with HeatTank

How HeatTank saves energy (optimization for external

temperature)?
The efficiency of cooling systems (EER or COP) highly depends on the external air temperature, because the cooling
system produces the cooling energy by using the external air to cool and investing in electricity to run the compressor.
So the compressor requires less work (electricity) when the external air temperature is lower, which means the EER of
COP is higher when the external air temperature is lower.

As an example, imagine an elevator. It is easier to reach the 7th floor from the 20th floor, than the 30th floor or even
the 40th floor. Same applies for the cooling systems, it is easier (more efficient) to produce 7 °C cooling energy from
30 °C external temperature than 30 °C or even 40 °C external temperature.

The external temperature during the night is usually 10÷15 °C lower than during the daily peak.
As an example, the EER of a cooling system during the night with 20 °C external temperature is 3,97 kW/kW. This is
the period when the HeatTanks are charged (green X).
During the day when HeatTanks are discharged, the external temperature is 35 °C and the EER is 2,7 (red X).
So HeatTank is charged with 47% higher efficiency than discharged.

Cooling efficiency (EER) in the function of external temperature (according to EN14511 and EU/2281/2016 and own
measurements)
 Energy saving with HeatTank

How HeatTank saves energy (optimization for external

temperature)?
The efficiency of cooling systems (EER or COP) highly depends on the external air temperature (see above).

The external temperature during the night is usually 10÷15 °C lower than during the daily peak.

As an example, during the night with 20 °C external air temperature, based on the needs the partial load of the cooling
system would be 0,2 (20%). When HeatTanks are charged the need is increasing the the partial load increases to 0,4
(40%), which results in 49% EER increase, because the cooling system will operate in a better duty point (red X -> green
X).
During the day with 35 °C external temperature and partial load of 1 (100%), the discharging of HeatTank decreases
the partial load to 0,85 (85%) so the cooling system will be a better duty point, which results in 31% EER increase (red
+ -> green +).

Cooling efficiency (EER) in the function of the external temperature and the partial (according to EN14511 and
EU/2281/2016 and own measurements)
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How HeatTank saves energy in ON-OFF chiller operation?

During a low part load period, the refrigeration compressor is "controlled" by switching ON-OFF frequently. In the
figure below, the blue curve indicates the actual cooling demand in proportion to the maximum cooling demand.
Before 8 am and after 8 pm, the cooling demand is less than the minimum cooling capacity of the chiller (0.2 or 20%
in the example). The chiller often turns ON and OFF, which on the one hand results in additional consumption and on
the other hand has a negative effect on the life of the compressor.

Another similar operation when the compressor of the cooling system has predefined staps and cannot control the
cooling capacity stepless (with inverted or any other solutions). To provide the needed cooling capacity, the
compressor needs to frequently change between the compressor steps.
There are predefined numbers for the compressors, which describes how many times can the compressor turn ON and
OFF during a period of time (for example 5/hour). These numbers cannot be exceeded.

With the help of HeatTanks the number of ON-OFFs can be decreased, because the charging and discharging will
increase the duration of ON and OFF periods (everything is controlled by our controller unit).
 HeatTank data sheet

Type HT 25-1 HT 25-2 HT 50-1 HT 50-2

Capacity [kWh] 20-35 20-35 45-65 45-65
Max performance [kW] 100 100 200 200
3
External volume [m ] 0.91 1.05 1.77 1.94
Nominal volume [m3] 0.48 0.55 0.91 0.98
Height with insulation (z) [mm] 1436 1436 1960 1960
Width with insulation (x) [mm] 979 979 770 770
Length with insulation (y) [mm] 648 745 1175 1286
Heat exchanger circuits 1 2 1 2
Connections [DN] 28 28 42 42
Empty weight [kg] 275 295 485 515
Total weight [kg] 650-900 700-980 1100-1450 1150-1700

Heat loss
Thanks to the PU foam insulation and the effect that
heat loss makes a small part of the PCM change its
phase around the walls of the storage (adding extra
insulation). The graph shows the daily heat loss in the
function of the temperature difference of the PCM and
the external air. The heat loss of HeatTank is
maximum 1-2%, as it is used for daily storage and the
longest time it stores thermal energy is 8-10 hours.

Pressure drop of HeatTank 50-1

Thanks to the parallel heat exchanger
pipe coils, pressure drop of HeatTank
is much smaller than the pressure drop
of the system.
 Cooling cost reduction
CHALLENGE SOLUTION
Cooling
33% Cooling can account for up to 33% of a In summer, at 25 ° C at night, chillers
building's electricity consumption. consume less electricity to produce the same
Lighting
23% Meanwhile, the summer heat load is steadily amount of cooling energy as during the day
rising and electricity prices will continue to at 40 ° C. Cooling is therefore more efficient
rise in the coming years. at night than during the day.

HeatTank thermal battery

a high performance cooling supplementary unit:
- due to the significant energy density in a small space HeatTank alone can provide cooling for
hours, increasing the operation safety of cooling systems.
- cooling energy can be generated in very efficient periods of the day to subsidize or lower the
cooling energy generation in not efficient periods.
- as a passive cooling unit, the self-consumption and operation costs are nearly zero, that is
how HeatTank support the cost-efficient cooling for technologies and comfort cooling systems.

20-30% 3-4 years 25 years

Energy saving Payback time min. lifetime

Increased
Operation CO2 emission
cooling system
security reduction
lifetime

Easy Governance
Modularity
integration support

Patented Hungarian development,

production and engineering project
Manufacturer Manufacturer 2017 Best Product Award
support

Operating principle of HeatTank thermal battery in cooling systems

With low external air temperature (in off-peak

1 time), the control turns ON the V1 valve, part of
the cooling liquid flows through HeatTank, while
supplying the cooling to the cooling indoor units.
HeatTank is charging, while being a consumer.

HeatTank is charging, while the return coolant

2 goes back to the chiller through the return main
pipes.

In peak periods, the control system turns off the

3 V2 valve, HeatTank connects to the cooling system
as a cooling energy producer.

HeatTank discharging while the chiller detects that

4 there is another cooling energy producer in the
circuit and lowers its cooling power. HeatTank and
the chiller supplies the cooling needs together.

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