US 11,898,803 B2 · Cooling plant system and method of operating said system

Abstract

The present disclosure may provide a cooling plant system, a method of operating a cooling plant system and an energy storage and scheduling control system, the cooling plant system comprising one or more cooling towers; one or more thermal energy storage systems coupled to the one or more cooling towers; one or more electrical energy storage systems, the one or more electrical energy storage systems being coupled to the one or more thermal energy storage systems for selectively providing electrical energy to the one or more thermal energy storage systems; and an energy storage and scheduling control system coupled to the one or more thermal energy storage systems and the one or more electrical energy storage systems.

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Dependent claims

A cooling plant system, the system comprising,

one or more cooling towers;
one or more thermal energy storage systems coupled to the one or more cooling towers;
one or more electrical energy storage systems, the one or more electrical energy storage systems being coupled to the one or more thermal energy storage systems for selectively providing electrical energy to the one or more thermal energy storage systems;
and
an energy storage and scheduling control system coupled to the one or more thermal energy storage systems and the one or more electrical energy storage systems, the energy storage and scheduling control system being configured to control operations of the one or more thermal energy storage systems and the one or more electrical energy storage systems via a scheduling of the operations per time slot, the operations including the selective provision of electrical energy to the one or more thermal energy storage systems.

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A method of operating a cooling plant system, the method comprising,

providing one or more cooling towers;
coupling one or more thermal energy storage systems to the one or more cooling towers;
coupling one or more electrical energy storage systems to the one or more thermal energy storage systems;
selectively providing electrical energy to the one or more thermal energy storage systems using the one or more electrical energy storage systems;
coupling an energy storage and scheduling control system to the one or more thermal energy storage systems and the one or more electrical energy storage systems;
and
controlling operations of the one or more thermal energy storage systems and the one or more electrical energy storage systems using a scheduling of the operations per time slot, the operations including the step of selectively providing electrical energy to the one or more thermal energy storage systems.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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Abstract

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