Location: Campus Valla, District cooling facility outside the C Building
District cooling is both a climate-smart
and energy-smart way to create a pleasant indoor temperature in, for example,
offices and server halls. Excess heat is used, and converted to cooling, and
this takes place without needing to use environmentally hazardous cooling
agents, while consuming less electricity than traditional cooling devices. The
technology is simple. Water is cooled in the facilities of the energy producer
with the aid of cooling equipment, and then distributed through a network to
each property that is connected. Here, a district cooling center controls the
transfer of cooling to the property through a heat exchanger. The cold water is
pumped out from the heat exchanger and distributed to cooling units in the
property.
The station District cooling at Campus Valla, Linköpings University. Photo credit Anna Nilsen