Texas A&M University, Qatar Cool host workshop on district cooling – The Peninsula

Texas A&M University, Qatar Cool host workshop on district cooling – The Peninsula

Doha: Texas A&M University at Qatar, in collaboration with Qatar Cool, hosted a workshop on district cooling for high school students.

Over the past academic year, 20 high school students from different schools in Qatar explored the engineering behind district cooling by participating in a programme hosted by Texas A&M University at Qatar, a Qatar Foundation partner university, in collaboration with Qatar Cool.

During the programme, Keeping Cool with Qatar Cool, students gained insights on various topics including the physics behind pumps, heat transfer and heat exchangers, water and energy conservation, thermodynamics, refrigeration, water purification, and reverse osmosis. During each lesson, they worked on hands-on projects such as building water fountains, making swamp coolers, creating hydroponics systems, studying refrigeration components, and creating water filtration and purification systems with an economic analysis for their designs.

The students also visited the Qatar Cool plant, which helped the participants understand how district cooling works and the engineering behind it. They researched solutions to clean or re-use the refrigerant gas within Qatar Cool plants or develop a more environmentally friendly method to discharge the gas into the atmosphere, as part of their final project.

Karima Ahmed, a student at ACS International School Doha who aspire to be an