Empower completes shoring work at Za’beel cooling plant
DUBAI, October 5, 2020
Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation (Empower) has announced that the shoring work has been completed on its new district cooling plant in Za’beel, one of the vital districts in Dubai.
The new plant, which will boast a cooling capacity of 50,000 refrigeration tons (RT), is aimed at catering to the increasing demand for environment-friendly district cooling services in the area.
Empower said its existing district cooling plant in DIFC will be interconnected to the new plant in Zabeel and the total cooling capacity of both plants together will be 112,000 RT.
The existing and under way multi-use urban projects in the Zabeel area that include Dubai World Trade Centre buildings, ‘One Zabeel’ Towers and other adjacent projects in DIFC will be served with high quality district cooling services from the plants.
According to Empower, the design of the new plant meets the highest international construction and designing standards including sustainable green buildings standards and considered the modern urban developments in Dubai, the overall landscape of the district and the outlook of the iconic buildings in Za’beel.
This is part of company’s strategy to extend the geographical range of its services and broaden the scope of the environmentally friendly district cooling services in Dubai, it stated.
On the new project, CEO Ahmad Bin Shafar said: "Zabeel cooling plant will operate with the smart and innovative technologies developed by Empower, to have more efficiency in its operations and optimize the energy usage that helps conserving the natural resources for the generations to come."
"The new plant will be using the award-winning technologies such as Treated Sewage Effluent (TSE) and Thermal Energy Storage (TES) technologies that reduces the load on State power grid by optimizing the inflow and outflow of chilled water during the peak and off-peak hours," he explained.
The plant will be connected to the Empower Command Control Centre, which is having the capacity to analyse up to two million of data related to coolers, transformers, cooling towers, water supplies, etc., using the advanced Scada system, it stated.
The center works through a highly efficient smart network that helps it respond accurately and promptly to any operation emergency that may occur in the district cooling plants, it added.-TradeArabia News Service
