Climate change and, at the same time, greater awareness of the importance of providing an adequate working environment are the reasons why the need for cooling in industrial buildings is increasing. In the assignment, we focus on analyzing the operation of thermally and electrically driven cooling systems in an industrial building. We created numerical models for recalculating the operation of the vapor-compression and absorption cooling system according to the SIST EN 16798-13:2018 standard. The required energy for cooling was determined using a model of the dynamic thermal response of buildings, which was validated by temperature measurements in an industrial building. We found that an industrial building needs 427 MWh of cooling energy per year, for which it would be necessary to install a cooling system with a power of 250 kW. In order to meet the annual electricity needs from renewable energy sources for the operation of the steam-compression cooling system, it would be necessary to install 420 m2 of PV modules and 183 m2 of PV modules for the absorption cooling system. This would reduce the use of primary energy for the operation of a vapor-compression refrigeration system by 43,5 % per year, and in the case of an absorption system by 76 %, compared to a traditional vapor-compression system. Energy consumption for the operation of cooling systems could be further reduced by more intensive natural cooling.
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