Pune-based energy and environment solutions company Thermax has designed and commissioned a first-of-its-kind solar air-conditioning system at the Solar Energy Centre in Gurgaon, Haryana.
For the 100 kW technology demonstration project, partly funded by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Thermax has integrated a triple-effect chiller and solar parabolic concentrators collectors both indigenously developed by them.
Mr M.S. Unnikrishnan, Managing Director & CEO of Thermax, said, “A growing India will consume 35 per cent of its entire electricity generated only for cooling and air-conditioning. So it makes immense sense to use solar energy as a source for cooling, and reduce the use of fossil fuel.”
The solar collectors in the Thermax system have been designed to harness sun's energy to provide temperatures from 140 to 210 degree Celsius. The new chiller offers a technological breakthrough for solar applications and can find application across shopping malls and commercial complexes, office buildings, hospitals and industrial cooling requirements for project sizes ranging from 100 kW to 3,000 kW.