How Burj Dubai, Visitors Abode Kept Cool?
An ice cream may be the most demanded product during summer days of a middle east city,but for a business company to keep that ice cream chilled surviving the high temperature is a tedious task.Similarly every tourist abodes are kept cool and demanding in Dubai with some extra chilling process.
Today we discuss about the cooling plant that chill the one of the world’s tallest building Burj Dubai. ETA-GDC has designed the mammoth task of air conditioning Burj Tower.As we all know the greenhouse gas emission is a main environmental problem for air condition systems,but global warming potential of HCFC-123 refrigerants used to cool Dubai is 76 compared to similar projects warming potential is around 1,320.
How Burj Dubai is Cooled?
Located in thriving downtown Dubai, the needle-shaped super scraper takes center stage in the famed skyline with millions of visitors and VIPs flocking each year to arguably the most prestigious address in the world.The tallest man made structure is the ultimate symbol of glitz, glamor and the over-the-top excess for which the city is known.ETA- GDC ,the district cooling division of Dubai based company is supplying chilled water to Burj Dubai,part of the Dubai Mall and two -five star hotels.
Inside the Burj Dubai,there are heat ex changers at three different elevations with independent primary and secondary chiller water pumps set for delivering the chilled water and circulating it through air- handling and fan coil units installed at respective floors to achieve air conditioning.The chilled water is delivered to the building by connecting an external chilled water network to chilled water headers in DCP-1 through a piped network.
The DCP 1 is provided with 20 high efficiency earth wise cenTraVac chillers supplied by Trane.Trane has also provided four air cooled chillers that provide standby coding capacity for the data centers.Installed on 155th and 159th floors of tower,these chillers are believed to be the highest installation of air-cooled chillers in the world.
Challenges in cooling Burj Dubai
To ensure that the chilled water piping network inside is capable of withstanding extraordinary high hydraulic pressures,besides the compatibility of pump sets and other heavy duty accessories is the biggest challenge in meeting cooling requirements.
Wetting the Oasis
The recovered condensate water from the tower’s cooling equipment, providing an estimated 15 million gallons of water a year is used for irrigating garden which is an 11 hectare oasis surrounding foot of the tower.This unique condensate water collection system is wetting the green Oasis.
Hot Job to Keep Cool
Once you check the records for Burj you will get surprised as it is the tallest freestanding structure in the world,Highest number of stories in the world,Highest occupied floor in the world,Highest outdoor observation deck in the world,Elevator with longest travel distance in the world,Tallest service elevator in the world,World’s highest swimming pool in a building (on Level 76). Apart from these records the chiller plant serves a hot job in cooling the malls and buildings of Burj with extreme engineering skill.Finally the appreciating fact is that Chiller repair in Dubai,companies regularly update chiller stations without any errors to keeps every tourist abodes in hot deserts feel cool always.
