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Introduction
The idea of using earth as a heat sink was known in
ancient times. In about 3000 B.C., IRANIAN ARCHITECTS
used wind towers and underground air tunnels for passive
cooling [1, 2]. Underground air tunnels (UAT) systems,
nowadays also known as Earth to Air Heat Exchangers have
been in use for years in Developed countries due to their
higher energy utilization efficiencies compared to the
conventional heating and cooling system. Earth -air heat
exchanger is a system of work that the thermal inertia of the
earth for heating / cooling use of buildings, offices, residential,
industrial,etc. or another word of earth-air heat exchangers
Are effective as emphatic substitute for these rated can be
used for heating / cooling the building. This is a principally a
series of metallic, plastic or concrete pipes immerse below the
earth at a particular depth. Energy savings of great thought is
everywhere a special challenge in the desert climate. The
climate of the desert can be classified as hot and dry and such
a condition exists in a number of areas around the world. In
general, most people probably when the temperature is
between 20 ° C and 26 ° C and a relative humidity is ranging
from 40 to 60%.These conditions are often achieved by the
use of air conditioners. Air conditioning is widely used for the
comfort of the occupants and the industrial productions. It can
be effectively achieved by vapour compression machines, but
to minimize due to the depletion of ozone layer and global
warming by chlorofluorocarbons and the need for high-grade
energy consumption various passive techniques are now
introduced a day, such a process is the earth-to-air heat
exchanger. An earth- air heat exchanger consist in one or more
pipe/tubes below the earth about 2.5 to 3 m in order to cool in
summer climates and pre-heat in winter climates air to be
supplied in a building. The physical phenomena of earth-air
heat exchanger is simple the ground temperature or
undisturbed temperature of earth generally higher than the
outdoor air temperature in winter and lower in summer, so it
makes the use of the earth suitable as warm or cold sink
respectively. Both of the above uses of earth air heat
exchanger can pass to reduction in energy consumption.
Several researchers have described the earth-to-air heat
exchangers (EAHE) coupled with buildings as an effective
passive energy source for building space conditioning. An
earth- to-air heat exchanger system suitably meets heating and
cooling energy loads of a building. Its performance is based
upon the seasonally varying inlet temperature, and out let
temperature which further depends on the ground temperature
or undisturbed temperature. The performance of the EAHE
system depends on the temperature and humidity distribution
in the soil, as well as to the surface conditions.
Working Principal of Earth Tube Heat Exchanger
The principle of the basic inertia for heating and cooling
using is not a new concept, but a modified concept that goes
back to the ancients. This technology has been used
throughout history by the ancient Greeks and Persians in the
pre-Christian era until recent history (Santamouris and
Asimakopoulos, 1996) [3,4,5]. For instance the Italians in the
middle Ages used caves called colvoli, to precool /preheat the
air before it entered the building. The system, which is
currently used, consists of a matrix of on buried pipelines,
through the air by a fan / blower. In summer, the supply of
ambient air through the tubes to the buildings is due to the
fact, cooled, that the undisturbed temperature is lower around
the heat exchanger than the ambient temperature. Same as
opposite rule of winter climates, the undisturbed temperature
is the greater than the ambient temperature and the air gets
preheated.
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ARTICLE INFO
Article history:
Received: 27 May 2016;
Received in revised form:
10 September 2016;
Accepted: 20 September 2016;
Keywords
EAHE,
Summer Cooling,
Energy Saving,
Earth’s Undisturbed
Temperature.
Earth Air Heat Exchanger Performance in Summer Cooling For Various
Supply Air Conditions
Ravi Ranjan Manjul
1
and V.N Bartaria
2
Department of Mechanical Engineering, LNCT, Bhopal, (MP), India.
ABSTRACT
There is a growing interest in heating and cooling systems based on renewable energy.
This is the property of earth ground the below about 2.5 to 3 m, the temperature of
ground remains nearly constant throughout the year. This constant temperature is called
undisturbed temperature of earth. However, a good visualize the undisturbed ground
temperature, for a correct interpretation of the geothermal heat exchanger. The
undisturbed temperature is very important yourself, which remains higher than the
outside temperature in winter and lower than the outside temperature in summer. The
EAHEs are considered as an effective passive heating/cooling medium for buildings. It is
basically a series of metallic, plastic or concrete pipes buried underground at a particular
depth through which the fresh atmospheric air flows and gets heated in winter and
supplied to the building if at sufficiently high temperature and vice versa in summer.
Until now, many researchers have conducted a series of studies in the development,
modelling and testing of systems of the EAHE. This paper observe on earth air heat
exchanger in summer cooling for various supply air conditions in summer climate in
LNCT Energy Park Raisen Road Bhopal M.P.
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