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DITRICT COLLING SYSTEM

District Cooling could be simply defined a:-

• A centralized cooling plant that serve multiply buildings.

• A centralized cooling plant that is designed as a utility.
• A centralized and operated for maximum life- usually 25 years
or more.
• A centralized cooling plant that I designed to operate at
maximum efficient at all time.
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• A centralized plant that is designed for

flexibility in operation.
• A centralized cooling plant that is deigned to
make full use of the operation /consumers
that it serves.
• A centralized plant that I operated by an
independent organization that operates,
maintains, and charges consumers for the
energy that is CONSUMED.
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In our minds, unless all of these parameters

are met, a centralized cooling plant cannot
de classified as a district cooling plant
unless all of the above criteria are met. The
operation must be classified a a utility
operator and must be responsible to its
consumers, the community and the
environment.
Similar organization in Dubai are – EMPOWER,
Tabreed, and Palm District cooling.
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How is District Cooling different

from a “Central Cooling plant”?
A Central plant is not much
different that a district plant. In
fact, the basic equipment is the
same. The difference lie in the
definition of a District Cooling
plant. The following is a list of
some of the basic differences
between the two systems.

CENTRAL PLANT
• It is operated by the owner of
the building or the developer.
• It serves single building or
small group of buildings known
as campus.
• The connections to buildings
are not metered.
• Designed to operate efficiently
capital investment is usually
not a great concern for the plant
itself. The capital is concern for
the entire development.
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DISTRICT COOLING PLAN
• Operated by a company that is
certified to be a utility provider.
• Serves large district with many
buildings with many examples.
• All consumer connections are
metered.
• Designed to operate efficiently,
and cost effective from a capital
investment perspective. These
plants are designed to minimize
operational costs and hence
max. profitability.

• Deigned to be reliable usually a
ingle point of failure from the
power supply and return feeds,
etc.
• Generally there plants utilize
electricity as their main source
of energy.
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• Designed usually with a higher
degree of reliability and include
implementation such as:-
i) Networked chilled water
supplies.
ii) Multiple electrical feeds.
iii) Industrial grade equipment
for control and operation.
iv) Distributed cooling plants.
• Deferent technologies are
available for these plants:
i) Gas fired engine driven
chillers.
ii) Absorption chillers.
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It utilize municipal These plants can be

domestic water for designed for use with:
cooling tower heat of •Treated sewage effluent.
rejection. •Sea water
•Ground water.

These plants are Designed by

generally designed by professionals that are
the engineers that design experienced in the district
the buildings. cooling field.