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Production de neige alimentée par la chaleur à l’aide d'un éjecteur et d’un frigorigène naturel.

Heat-driven snow production applying ejector and natural refrigerant.

Numéro : 0031

Auteurs : AASEN A., GABRIELII C., MOEN O. M.

Résumé

An effect of climate change is fewer cold days and less natural snow at lower elevations. This has spurred the interest in temperature independent snow (TIS) production, i.e., refrigeration technologies that can produce snow at ambient temperatures above zero. Commercially available TIS systems require a higher power consumption than conventional systems, i.e., snow lances and guns. Thus, to ensure that future snow-making sites are sustainable, it is necessary to develop solutions with a minimal environmental footprint. One possibility is to utilize surplus heat from industrial processes or from a district heating network to drive snow-making systems. Examples of heat driven refrigeration technologies fit for this purpose are absorption cooling and ejector cooling, both applying natural refrigerants. This paper evaluates a solution for heat driven ejector-based snow making systems: a vacuum ice slurry system using water (R718) as refrigerant. The required amount of driving heat and its required minimum temperature level largely depend on the ejector characteristics. Thus, to enable a proper evaluation, detailed numerical simulations of the ejector design and its efficiency were performed, at different temperature levels of driving heat and ambient temperatures. Results were used as input to estimate the overall performance, in terms of specific energy consumption (per m3 produced snow), compared to other TIS systems. The ejector-based system can be driven by low-grade heat (80 °C) and is shown to be highly efficient if cold cooling water (≤ 10°C) is available.

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Pages : 12 p.

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Détails

  • Titre original : Heat-driven snow production applying ejector and natural refrigerant.
  • Identifiant de la fiche : 30029821
  • Langues : Anglais
  • Sujet : Technologie
  • Source : 15th IIR-Gustav Lorentzen Conference on Natural Refrigerants (GL2022). Proceedings. Trondheim, Norway, June 13-15th 2022.
  • Date d'édition : 13/06/2022
  • DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.18462/iir.gl2022.0031
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