Thermal Storage Tank and Thermal Storage System (TES) Design Optimization

Thermal storage tanks play an important role in providing chilled water and saving energy in data centers. In one of Southland’s recent projects, we tested the installed thermal storage system at the same conditions that we had originally simulated in the CFD model. The results of the field-testing showed that the thermal storage tanks provided a discharge capacity within a two percent margin of error. This outstanding result validates our efforts with CFD modeling to prove the effectiveness of our designs. Using this process also helped the project’s design-build team save time, materials, and building square footage by reducing the number of required storage tanks to provide the required storage quantity. Two videos show the temperature contours in an early (left) and optimized (right) design and how clearly the optimized design increased the deliverable chilled water time.

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