DOHA: The upcoming District Cooling Summit is expected to discuss host of challenges and opportunities, including the potential of innovative ‘Solar Outdoor Cooling’ as a new and viable option to lead the region into a new age of sustainability in the energy- and water-intensive District Cooling sector.
The sixth edition of the Annual Middle East District Cooling Summit is to be held here from November 10 to 11. In the last six year, the event has expanded, offering more opportunities, including an exhibition that will run alongside the conference, according to a press statement issued yesterday by Qatar Project Management (QPM) Company, the orgnising partner of the event.
Headlining the summit are some of the region’s leading government authorities, decision makers, project stakeholders, master developers and technology firms.
The Doha-based QPM is representing Qatar as both the project management partner and Chair of the Summit, represented by Salah Nezar, Corporate Sustainability Director at QPM, who will also be chairing many panel discussions during the two-day conference.
Nezar will also give the keynote presentation during the opening session highlighting Solar Outdoor Cooling opportunities in the region.
Nezar said: “There are just a few days in the region when direct sunlight is low. Therefore, the practical applications of harnessing solar energy in the region are massive and much more lucrative in terms of sustainability factors than anywhere else in the world. This solution can drive the massive demand growth for cooling in our expanding cities.”
The research being presented by QPM is co-authored by Nezar on behalf of QPM in partnership with Dirk Krüger and Jürgen Dersch from the German Aerospace Center, which is headquartered in Cologne, Germany.
The paper explains how the sun can be an innovative and sustainable answer to a scalable and affordable outdoor cooling solution in Qatar. The ground-breaking solution aims at rebranding the outdoor environment in Qatar during the summer, so it is comfortable and more appealing for people to experience open-air activities, rather than staying inside a confined environment.
Some of the proposed solutions being presented during this keynote session include the cooling of a playground in Lusail City as a case study performed in collaboration with the QPM partners involved in the project.
The presentation will also cover many other key topics related to the challenges and opportunities in producing a reduced scale prototype to corroborate results obtained from a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation. The results of the techno-economic study will be shared with the audience to demonstrate the cost effectiveness of the proposed solution.
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