A project designed by a group of Canarian industrial engineers aims to produce cold through the extraction of seawater at great depth using renewable energies for later use in air conditioning for the tourism sector.
The researchers, including Óscar Curbelo, have been working on this innovative project since the summer of 2009. After making a tour of the various islands in search of a location, they finally decided on the area of Morro Jable and Esquinzo-Butihondo, both in the southern municipality of Pájara, due to their environmental conditions, given that a few kilometers from the coast the water temperature ranges from 7 to 8 eight degrees at a depth of between 500 and 1,200 meters. In addition, in the environment where this project is intended to be developed, one of the most important tourist areas of the Archipelago is located and there is a potential consumer of air conditioning.
The system lies in the use of seawater to achieve a sufficiently low temperature, as well as a system of thermal collectors to produce cold from solar energy through the adsorption technique. "The cold production module would be integrated into a two-volume building that would need a plot of between 3,000 and 4,000 square meters," says Curbelo.
The industrial engineer Óscar Curbelo. one of the authors of the project.
In the opinion of Óscar Curbelo, this proposal aims, basically, "to replace the current panorama of cold production in large facilities, mainly in establishments dedicated to tourism, through electrical energy by a centralized system of cold production based on renewable energies".
Source: Antonio Cabrera, laprovincia.es
Authors: Air Conditioning
