Air Conditioning with Natural Energy

Applications, Case Studies, and Energy Savings Potential

Xianting Li, Xinhua Xu, Xianting Li, Xinhua Xu

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9780443135064
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443135071
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Economic Theory
• Index: Biological Sciences

Air Conditioning with Natural Energy is a comprehensive examination of the principles, theory, applications, and energy saving performance of newly developed technologies for air conditioning using natural energy. Based on the latest research and real-world case studies from North America, Europe, and China, the book provides an engineering perspective on the design and application of air conditioning from multiple climates. The book is divided into two parts. Part I examines the range of air conditioning technologies that use natural energy. This includes enhanced treatment technologies for outdoor air such as earth-to-air heat exchanger, fresh air pre-handling system using shallow geothermal energy, as well as newly developed technologies such as pipe-embedded wall, nocturnal cooling wall, and pipe-embedded window systems. With particular focus on applications in China, Part II provides real world case studies from multiple climatic zones, demonstrating the practical application and implementation of these technologies. Each case study analyses the carbon emission reduction potential, energy saving potential and the operational performance of the technologies. Air Conditioning with Natural Energy is an invaluable review of the latest developments in air conditioning technologies for practicing engineers, researchers, and students involved in the design and implementation of HVAC systems or working in the fields of thermal and mechanical engineering and the sustainable built environment. - Explains the theory and principles underpinning the latest and most important air conditioning technologies with natural energy - Provides a new decision-making index and revised degree hours to evaluate the energy saving potential of different air conditioning technologies with natural energy, helping readers identify the most suitable air conditioning technology for any climate zone - Analyzes the energy saving potential of different technologies from real projects in different climate zones and calculates the contribution of carbon emission reduction that can be achieved globally

Table of contents

• Air Conditioning with Natural Energy
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Enhanced treatment technologies for outdoor air
• 3 Pipe-embedded wall systems
• 4 A nocturnal cooling wall system
• 5 The pipe-embedded window
• 6 Revised degree hours
• 7 Application potential of natural energy
• 8 A microenergy consumption building using natural cold energy
• 9 Seawater cooling system in the National Oceanography Centre in the United Kingdom
• 10 Natural and hybrid ventilation in the Houghton Hall Office Building, United Kingdom
• 11 Free cooling with tailwater for Pubugou hydropower station in Ya’an Sichuan Province, China
• 12 Application of the indirect evaporative water chiller system in one Urumqi Hospital
• 13 An application of the indirect evaporative cooling water chillers in a data center in Changji, Xinjiang Province, China
• 14 Application of the evaporative cooling air conditioning system in Lanzhou Metro Line, Gansu Province, China
• 15 The centralized evaporative cooling air conditioning system applied in a data center in Urumqi, Xinjiang Province, China
• 16 Application of the radiant floor cooling system with direct-ground cooling source and displacement ventilation in an office building in Jinan, Shandong Province, China
• 17 Free cooling from an underground fire-fighting pool for the radiant ceiling in a high-rise residential building in Xiantao, Hubei Province, China
• 18 Integrated air conditioner with thermosiphon for three telecom base stations in North, East and South China
• 19 Summaries and perspectives
• Nomenclature
• Appendix
• Index