PERFORMANCE OF TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY INDEPENDENT CONTROL AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEM IN AN OFFICE BUILDING.

SEMINAR REPORT

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of the Degree in Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering of the University of Kerala. By

JISHNU RAGHAV.S
Roll No: 8424 S7 B Tech Mechanical Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering Marian Engineering College

Thiruvananthapuram-695582

NOVEMBER 2011

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MARIAN ENGINEERING COLLEGE TRIVANDRUM 695582

CERTIFICATE
Certified that this report entitled PERFORMANCE OF TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY INDEPENDENT CONTROL AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEM IN AN OFFICE BUILDING is the paper presented by JISHNU RAGHAV.S Roll No: 8424 on 1ST JULY 2011 in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of the Degree in Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering of the University of Kerala.

Guided by Kishor E Assistant professor Dept of Mechanical Engg. Marian Engineering College

Seminar Coordinator Kishor E Assistant Professor Dept of Mechanical Engg. Marian Engineering College

Dr K S Ramakrishnan Professor and Head Dept of Mechanical Engg. Marian Engineering College Thiruvananthapuram

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I express my sincere thanks to Prof.Ramakrishanan, Head of the Department for providing me with the guidance and facilities for the seminar. I express my sincere gratitude to seminar coordinator Mr.Kishor, Staff in charge, for his cooperation and guidance for preparing and presenting the seminar. I express my sincere thanks to Dr.Christal Flory (hod mathematics). I express my thanks to Kang Zhao (author) for clarifying my doubts. I express my sincere thanks to Mr. Ullas innocent raj, assistant professor for helping me. I also extend my sincere thanks to all other faculty members of Mechanical Engineering Department and my friends for their support and encouragement.

JISHNU RAGHAV.S

ABSTRACT

Human comfort is that condition of mind, which expresses satisfaction with the thermal environment. The human comfort zone is between 200 C-25.50 C and relative humidity is between 30%-60%.The temperature and humidity independent control (THIC) system, which controls indoor temperature and moisture separately, helps to attain human comfort zone effectively. In order to verify the effectiveness of THIC system, a pilot project has been implemented in an office building in Shenzhen, China. In the system, liquid desiccant [LiBr] fresh air handling units driven by heat pumps are utilized to remove the entire latent load of outdoor air supplied for the whole building, and chilled water at the temperature of 17.50 C from chiller is pumped and distributed into dry fan coil units and radiant panels to control indoor temperature. This paper presents the results of field test of the system, which shows that the system can provide a comfortable indoor environment even in very hot and humid weather. The COP of the entire THIC system can reach 4.0. The energy consumption of the THIC system in the tested office building was 32.2 kWh/(m2yr), which shows a difference in energy-saving potential compared with the conventional air-conditioning system (around 49kWh/(m2 yr)).

CONTENTS
Page no. 1.INTRODUCTION 1.1 conventional air- conditioning system 1.2 Temperature and Humidity Independent Control (THIC) system 2.LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 vapour compression cycle 2.2 process 3.PERFORMANCE OF TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY INDEPENDENT CONTROL SYSTEM 3.1 description of the THIC system in an office building 3.2 Temperature and Humidity Independent Control air-conditioning system. 3.2.1 Humidity control sub system 3.2.2 temperature control sub system 3.3 Performance test of THIC system 3.3.1 indoor thermal environment 3.3.2 Energy efficiency of THIC system 3.3.2.1 energy efficiency of humidity control subsystem 3.3.2.2 energy efficiency of temperature control subsystem 3.3.2.3 energy efficiency of entire THIC system 3.3.3 Energy consumption of the THIC system 4.RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 5.CONCLUSION 6.SCOPE FOR FUTURE 7.REFERENCES 7 8 10 11 11 12 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 6 6 1 1 2 3 3 5

LIST OF FIGURES 1.1 conventional air- conditioning system 1.2 THIC system 2.1 vapour compression cycle diagram 2.2 T-S diagram 2.3 P-H diagram 3.1 vestibule and schematic diagram 3.2 schematic of THIC air conditioning system 3.3 diagram of air processor 3.4 indoor terminal devices 3.5 cooling load and power consumption in THIC system LIST OF GRAPHS 3.1 annual outdoor conditions 3.2 air psychometric chart 3.3 indoor environment of office building 3.4 temperature and humidity distribution 5.5 monthly power consumption of THIC system LIST OF TABLES 3.1 main devices of thic system in an office building 3.2 performance of temperature control system 10 13 9 11 12 15 7 8 8 10 14 1 2 3 4 4 6