Study of water-side free cooling technology for power lithium battery plant

Power lithium battery production process needs to consume a lot of energy. In this paper, an energy consumption analysis of a representative company was conducted, the energy consumption of the facilities that provide support for the process is higher than the energy consumption of the process equip...

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Published in:Journal of physics. Conference series 2024-03, Vol.2723 (1), p.12008
Main Author: Lin, Jiajing
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Air conditioning
Cooling
Cooling systems
Cooling towers
Cooling water
Electricity consumption
Energy conservation
Energy consumption
Humidity
Lithium batteries
Water temperature
Water use
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Summary:Power lithium battery production process needs to consume a lot of energy. In this paper, an energy consumption analysis of a representative company was conducted, the energy consumption of the facilities that provide support for the process is higher than the energy consumption of the process equipment itself, which greatly affects the cost of battery manufacturing. Air-conditioning system as the most important energy-consuming system of the facilities, accounting for 25% to 45% of the total electricity consumption. The energy consumption of the cooling source system dominates, even in winter its energy consumption can reach 14% of the total energy consumption. On this basis, this paper analyzes the chilled-water-use characteristics of the air-conditioning terminal in winter through theoretical analysis, the chilled water temperature is therefore optimized according to the real-time outdoor humidity. The chilled water temperature is linearly increased after the humidity ratio fall below 7.5g/kg(a), reaching a maximum value of 12.1°C at 6g/kg(a). In addition, the cooling tower free cooling technology based on the optimized chilled water temperature is innovatively proposed to fully explore the energy-saving potential of the technology to achieve the energy saving of the cooling source system. TRNSYS simulation results show that after optimizing the chilled water temperature, the time period for cooling tower individual cooling under winter operating condition is extended by 60%, and cooling source system energy saving rate can reach 49.0% and the cost saving rate 48.0%, both of which are higher than 15% compared to the un-optimized chilled water temperature.
ISSN:1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/2723/1/012008