A New Air-conditioning System with Chilled Water Storage

For the purpose of grid peak load shifting, chilled water storage has been paid more and more attentions to integrated with air-conditioning system. In this paper, a new air conditioning system with directly chilled water storage is given. With peak-valley Price, cost for power consumption can be saved 15%-20% by coordinated operation between chilled water storage system and air conditioning system. By sensitivity analysis of system economic performance on ratio of peak price to valley price, it is revealed that with much higher ratio of peak price to valley price, not only system economic performance can seldom be improved, but also chilled water storage is restricted for engineering utilization. This paper supplies theory reference for engineering application of chilled water storage technology.