Journal
ENERGY AND BUILDINGS
Volume 271, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2022.112311
Keywords
Room air conditioner; Radiative heating; Convective heating; Stratum Air Distribution; Thermal comfort
Funding
- Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Programme by Xi'an Association for Science and Technology [095920211315]
- Top Young Talent Programme of Xi'an Jiaotong University [011900/71211222030705]
- Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou, China [202201010749]
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This study proposes a new type of radiant-convective room air conditioner and evaluates its effectiveness for providing thermal comfort under heating mode. The results show that the proposed room air conditioner can increase heat output, improve air distribution, and effectively enhance thermal comfort.
The radiant-convective room air conditioner has been demonstrated to improve the coefficient of performance and the heating capacity effectively. However, the applicability of the radiant-convective room air conditioner in modulating the indoor thermal environment is unclear. This study proposes a stratum-air-distributed radiant-convective room air conditioner and evaluates its effectiveness for providing thermal comfort under heating mode with experimentally validated CFD simulations. Results show that the heat output of the radiant panel of the room air conditioner accounts for 20.7 %- 34.5 % of the total heat output. The supply airflow rate should be properly determined to balance the highly coupled heat output and air distribution. Compared with the conventional room air conditioner, the proposed room air conditioner under proper operation more effectively warms the occupied zone because of the enlarged heat output and improved air distribution, thereby increasing the predicted mean vote from -0.15 to -0.02, reducing the vertical air temperature difference from 6.7 degrees C to 0.8 degrees C, and enhancing the thermal utilization effectiveness from -0.09 to 0.25. In addition, the draft rating and radiant temperature asymmetry of the proposed room air conditioner are thermally acceptable. Therefore, the proposed room air conditioner can modulate the indoor thermal environment energy-efficiently from the aspects of both overall and local thermal comfort. (C) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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