Ice Builder for Solar Installation in Nigeria
Kilkenny Cooling Systems has been supplying ice builders to various countries on the continent of Africa for a number of years now. We have ice builders in Tunisia, Algeria, Mali, Egypt and most recently Nigeria.
This week we shipped an IB-0800 to a Danish company for installation in Nigeria, for use with Solar PV electricity in a dairy application.
An ice builder is an absolutely ideal source of cooling when paired with renewable energy sources.
Renewables by their very nature are unreliable in terms of their supply of power, and so often must be augmented with a battery or other power source.
The Kilkenny Ice Builder works by storing ‘potential cooling’ in the form of ice. Think of it as a type of ‘battery’ but instead of storing electricity it stores cooling. This means that a store of cooling can be built when electricity is cheap (such as off peak tarriffs) or free such as with a source of renewable electricity – and used as required.
There is no real limit to the number of times an ice builder can be charged and discharged, and the materials it is made from are highly recyclable. At the end of its working life (typically decades) the ice builder can be mostly recycled.
Ice Builder for Solar Installation in Nigeria
