Title :
A Numerical Study of Regional Air Conditioning Mechanism
Author :
Huang, K. David ; Tuan, Nguyen Anh ; Shih, Yang-Cheng ; Tseng, Kuo-Tung
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Mech. & Electr. Eng., Nat. Taipei Univ. of Technol., Taipei
Abstract :
The paper has studied features of a regional air conditioning mechanism (RACM) and CFD model to predict the comfort properties in a certain area of a workroom. The paper described the constructs of RACM, the use of computational fluid dynamics software Fluent to analyze turbulent airflow and setting up the heat transfer parameters of a certain area with RACM. As the numerical simulation of many cases with varying air inlet and outlet parameters was considered to obtain standard thermal comfort indices based on ISO 7730, the regional air-conditioning mechanism can be successfully established. In addition, the analytical estimation of minimum energy consumption was confirmed by thermal comfort criteria results.
Keywords :
air conditioning; computational fluid dynamics; CFD model; Fluent; ISO 7730; computational fluid dynamics software; minimum energy consumption; regional air conditioning mechanism; standard thermal comfort indices; Air conditioning; Computational fluid dynamics; Ducts; Energy consumption; Fans; Filters; ISO standards; Numerical simulation; Temperature control; Ventilation;
Conference_Titel :
Sustainable Energy Technologies, 2008. ICSET 2008. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1887-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1888-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICSET.2008.4747101
