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| URL | https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2025-THPB096 |
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| Title | Utilization of renewable energies for sustainable accelerator operation at KIT |
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| Abstract | The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology operates the accelerator test facility Karlsruhe Research Accelerator, which also provides synchrotron radiation at 2.5 GeV. Roughly one third of the wall-plug power is used for cooling. Optimizing the infrastructure for cooling has a huge impact on the overall sustainability. To reduce the environmental impact a thermal well system was installed. It reduces the base heat load by eliminating one of three 500 kW cooling units. This paper describes the challenges, such as iron-manganese rich groundwater, and their solution for our 1 MW passive cooling system. The average energy consumption of 28 kW for the thermal well infrastructure is compensated by a new 540 kWp solar power plant. This paper elaborates on the commissioning of the wells and shows the first results of this overall sustainable cooling concept. |
| Paper | download: THPB096.pdf |
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| Conference | 16th International Particle Accelerator Conference |
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| Location | Taipei, Taiwan |
| Date | 01-06 Jun 2025 |
| Publisher | JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Editorial Board | * Ming-Chyuan Lin - National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center * Yoichi Sato - KEK * Jui-Che Huang - National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center * David Button - Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation * Ping-Shun Chuang - National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center |
| Online ISBN | 978-3-95450-248-6 |
| Online ISSN | 2673-5490 |
| Received | 28 May 2025 |
| Revised | 01 June 2025 |
| Accepted | 05 June 2025 |
| Issued | 05 November 2025 |
| DOI | 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2025-THPB096 |
| Pages | 2670-2672 |
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