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Ice Ball™ — Thermal Energy Storage
Innovative Cooling Technologies has partnered with Cryogel Corporation of San Diego, California and is the exclusive supplier of the patented Ice Ball™ product for off-peak cooling in Ontario.
Why is Ice Ball™ the Best?
Ice Ball™ is a patented TES technology. Ice Ball is a proven product and over 20,000,000 Ice Balls provide thermal energy storage for off-peak cooling for schools, hospitals, airports, office buildings and manufacturing facilities around the globe.
Ice Ball Feature |
Advantage & Benefit |
| Containment flexibility |
Virtually any type or shape of tank can be used for Ice Ball containment.
Tank flexibility lowers costs and facilitate retrofit installations in existing buildings. |
| Greater surface area |
Ice Balls provide 30 to 300% more surface area per Nominal ton hour compared to other vendors ice-on-coil systems.
In short, Ice Balls are more efficient and deliver better performance. |
| Simplicity |
Like marbles in a jar Ice Balls are placed in tanks, froze at night and melted during the day – no moving parts! |
| Reliability |
Unlike ice-on-coil systems, no heat exchanger tubes, fittings, air pumps or other moving parts are associated with the storage tank for Ice Balls.
This, of course, eliminates failure points providing greater reliability and lower maintenance costs. |
| Environmentally Friendly |
Ice Balls are 4” specially designed polyethylene spheres containing water.
It takes less energy to freeze Ice Balls than it does to produce the equivalent cooling capacity with ice-on-coil systems.
Off-peak cooling shifts your major energy consumption to off-peak hours when power generation is more efficient and reduces Ontario’s need to purchase "dirty" power out of province.
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