Patent ID: 8713950

Claim:
A method of operating a cooling system comprising the steps: producing cooling energy by means of a refrigerating device and supplying the cooling energy produced by the refrigerating device to at least one cooling station by means of a cooling circuit, circulating in which is a refrigerant, which upon release of the cooling energy of the refrigerant to the at least one cooling station the refrigerant is converted from the liquid to the gaseous state and is then converted back to the liquid state by means of corresponding pressure and temperature control in the cooling circuit, wherein upon transfer of the cooling system to its state of rest a control valve disposed in the cooling circuit is controlled in such a way that a desired operating pressure (ρ β ) arises in the cooling circuit downstream of the control valve and that refrigerant cooled by the refrigerating device is received in a reservoir disposed upstream of the control valve in the cooling circuit.