Week 6maint MGMT BIE2016 Mechanical
Week 6maint MGMT BIE2016 Mechanical
Week 6maint MGMT BIE2016 Mechanical
Air Conditioning/Ventilation
Outline of Lecture
• Definition
• Various types of air conditioning systems
• Choice of System
• Central Chilled Water Air Conditioning Systems and
Direct Expansion Systems
• Distribution systems
• A brief presentation for Air Conditioning
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Air Conditioning
Definition:
The basic concept behind air conditioning is known to have been applied in
ancient Egypt where reeds hung in windows had water trickling down. The
evaporation of water cooled the air blowing through the window, though this
process also made the air more humid.
Air conditioning
A cooling tower is a heat rejection device which rejects waste heat to the
atmosphere through the cooling of a water stream to a lower temperature.
Cooling towers may either use the evaporation of water to remove process heat
and cool the working fluid to near the wet-bulb air temperature or, in the case of
closed circuit dry cooling towers, rely solely on air to cool the working fluid to
near the dry-bulb air temperature.
2) Split Air Conditioner: The split unit is comprised of two parts: the
outdoor unit and the indoor unit. The outdoor unit, fitted outside the room,
houses components like the compressor, condenser and expansion
valve. The indoor unit comprises the evaporator or cooling coil and the
cooling fan. For this unit no slot in the wall of the room is required.
Further, the present day split units have aesthetic looks and add to the
beauty of the room. The split air conditioner can be used to cool one or
two rooms.
Types (cont’)
4) Central Air Conditioning System: The central air conditioning system is used
for cooling big buildings, houses, offices, entire hotels, gym, cinema hall, factory
etc. If the whole building is to be air conditioned, HVAC engineers find that putting
individual units in each of the rooms is very expensive initially as well in the long
run. The central air conditioning system is comprised of a huge compressor that
has the capacity to produce hundreds of tons of air conditioning. Cooling big
halls, malls, huge spaces, galleries etc. is usually feasible with central
conditioning units only.
Window Unit Package Units
Split Units
Central Air Conditioning
Choice of System will depend on building
purpose and degree of occupancy (use of
medium of cooling)
2. Central Chilled Water Air Conditioning Systems – Air and Water Systems
2.1 Induction
2.2 Fan Coil
2.3 Two Pipe
2.4 Three Pipe
3. Central Chilled Water Air Conditioning Systems – All Water Systems including cooling
towers which can also be applied to systems 1 & 2 above
3.1 Fan-coil units
3.2 Central air conditioning with chilled water with fan coils and other devices
3.3 Water cooling towers
4. Direct Expansion Systems [i.e. direct expansion of refrigerant, without the chilled water
cooling medium ]
4.1 Window air conditioners
4.2 Unitary and Rooftop Air Conditioners
4.3 Split type and package air conditioning systems
4.4 Heat pumps
1. Central chilled water air conditioning systems - All Air Systems
An all-air system provides complete sensible and latent cooling capacity in the cold air
supplied by the system. All-air systems can be classified into 2 categories:-
-Single duct systems
-Dual duct systems
System Advantages
1. The central plant is located in unoccupied areas, hence facilitating operating and
maintenance, noise control and choice of suitable equipment.
2. No piping, electrical wiring and filters are located inside the conditioned space.
3. Allows the use of the greatest numbers of potential cooling seasons house with
outside air in place of mechanical refrigeration.
4. Seasonal changeover is simple and readily adaptable to climatic control.
5. Gives a wide choice of zonability, flexibility, and humidity control under all operating
conditions.
6. Heat recovery system may be readily incorporated.
7. Allows good design flexibility for optimum air distribution, draft control, and local
requirements.
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System Advantages (cont)
System Disadvantages
1. The Air Handling Unit is a cabinet that includes or houses the central furnace, air
conditioner, or heat pump and the plenum and blower assembly that forces air through
the ductwork.
2. The Supply Ductwork carries air from the air handler to the rooms in a house. Typically
each room has at least one supply duct and larger rooms may have several.
3. The Return Ductwork carries air from the conditioned space back to the air handler.
Most houses have only one or two main return ducts located in a central area.
4. Supply and Return Plenums are boxes made of duct board, metal, drywall or wood that
distribute air to individual ducts or registers.
5. The Ductwork is a branching network of round or rectangular tubes generally
constructed of sheet metal, fiberglass board, or a flexible plastic and wire composite
material located within the walls, floors, and ceilings. The three most common types of
duct material used in home construction are metal, fiberglass duct board, and flex-
duct.
6. Flex-duct is installed between the register and plenum box, or plenum box and air
handler, usually in a single, continuous piece. While flex-duct has fewer seams, the
inner lining and outer insulated covering can tear or be pinched closed. Also longer
flex-duct runs can restrict the flow of air; proper design and installation is very
important.
7. Both metal and fiberglass duct board are rigid and installed in pieces. Fiberglass
duct board, like flex-duct, is made of an insulation material. Ducts are built of
sections of the duct board. The seams in the duct board should be carefully sealed
with mastic or high quality duct tape.
8. Rectangular metal duct, especially the kind used for plenums and larger trunk runs,
is often insulated on the inside with fiberglass duct liner. If it is not insulated on
the inside, metal ducts should be insulated on the outside using a fiberglass batt
with an attached metal foil vapor retarder. The insulation should be at least two
inches thick, and the vapor barrier installed on the outside of the insulation facing
away from the duct.
The seams in the insulation are usually stapled together around the duct and then
taped. All of the seams should be sealed before insulation is installed. All return
and supply ducts located outside the conditioned space, in attics, crawlspaces, or
basements, for example, should be sealed and insulated.
The water side consists of a pump and piping to convey water to heat transfer surfaces
within each conditioned space. The water is commonly cooled by the introduction of chilled
water from the primary cooling system and is refereed to as the secondary water
loop. Individual room temperature control is by regulation of either the water flow through
it or the air flow over it.
Fan-Coil System
The fan-coil system is similar to the inducting system, with the induction unit
replaced by the fan-coil unit. The basic elements of the fan-coil units are a finned-
tube coil and a fan section. The fan section recirculates air continuously from
within the perimeter space through the coil which is supplied with either hot or
chilled water. Auxiliary air may be delivered to the conditioned space for
dehumidification and ventilation purposes.
Fan-coil units
A fan-coil unit basically consists of a finned
tube coil, a filter and a fan section. The fan
recirculates air continuously from the
space through the coil, which contains
either hot or chilled water.
3 Water cooling tower
A water cooling tower cools the water entering it from 35 deg. C to 30 deg. C
nominally. The warmer water is sprayed inside the cooling tower amidst the stream
of an upward air flow produced by the fan at the top of the tower. The air stream
going out carries water particles. These water particles should not be taken into
buildings, to avoid Legionnaire disease to occur. Condenser water pumps move
condenser water through this circuit. Water in this circuit has to be treated. There
is water loss to atmosphere in using cooling towers.
Since this compressor gives out most noise, among other components,
the window unit will make the room acoustically inferior to other air
conditioning systems.
-(1) setting the “ventilator” switch of the window air conditioner to “open”
position
-(2) installing a ventilating extract fan in the room to extract room air to
outside – caution- not to oversize the fan
a. A split air conditioning system consists of an indoor unit and an outdoor unit connected together by
refrigerant pipes. The refrigerant circulates between these 2 units [i.e. 2 parts of the system] to take
heat from indoor to outdoor, by firstly having heat of the room air absorbed into the refrigerant via
an air-refrigerant heat exchanger which is the indoor unit, then conveying the heat to the outdoor
unit for disposal.
b. The indoor unit comprises a finned coil and a fan which is driven by an electric motor. Refrigerant is
circulated inside the finned coil to the outside unit and then back to the indoor unit. The fan pulls or
pushes air around the outer surfaces of the coil inside the indoor unit, taking warm air from the
room and injecting cooled air into the room in summer. The refrigerant has no direct contact with air.
So the heat of the room air is transferred into the refrigerant in the indoor unit. Inside the coil,
refrigerant evaporates, and the indoor unit is therefore commonly called an evaporator by the
engineers. The indoor unit is wall-mount or ceiling mount unit.
c. The outdoor unit - The refrigerant then takes the heat from the indoor unit to the outdoor unit,
which is commonly called a condensing unit.
[ i.e. a unit for refrigerant to condense] In an air-cooled outdoor unit, heat exchange occurs in the
same way as the indoor unit. However, the outdoor unit contains a refrigerant compressor, in
addition to having a finned coil and motor-driven fan. The refrigerant does not have direct contact
with air. Refrigerant going through this outdoor coil is losing its energy across the metal surface of
the coil to the atmosphere, as outside air is drawn pass the surface of the finned coil by the fan. By
passing through this finned coil, the outside air is heated up, by normally about 5 deg. rise in
temperature. The outside air passing through the outdoor unit is an open circuit. That is, air path
is not recirculated.
SPLIT SYSTEM
• The indoor unit comprises the evaporator or cooling coil and the cooling fan.
• The outdoor unit connects with the indoor unit by two refrigerant tubes.
• The cooling capacity of split-type air-conditioner is usually larger than that of
window-type.
Warm humid air passes through the vanes of an evaporator coil where in, sealed
tubes liquid refrigerant is “boiling off”. This process absorbs heat energy from the
air so that it cools down. Moisture is also removed from the air during this process
and collects in a tray beneath the evaporator. The water collected is commonly
referred to as “condensate” this is drained away naturally or pumped using an
internal pump unit.
Fig 2, illustrates an evaporator coil, found inside most air conditioning units. Size
and shape will vary depending on the type of unit.
Centralized air conditioning systems are used for cooling large spaces or entire
building.
Generally, the COP (Coefficient of Performance) of centralized air conditioning
system is higher than room coolers.
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A brief presentation for Air
conditioning as prepared
by
Assoc Prof Rao, Dept of
Architecture
An Air conditioning system
Filter
Supply
Air
O/A FAN
Cooling
Mixing Box
Coil
AIR-CONDITIONED ROOM
NOT TO SCALE
Refrigerating Machinery
SPLIT SYSTEM
AIR-CONDITIONERS
OUTSIDE
INSIDE
EXTERNAL WALL
Outdoors
Room
External Wall
NOT TO SCALE
NOT TO SCALE
Inside
Outside
Possible locations for
indoor and outdoor units
SIMPLE SINGLE ZONE AIRCONDITIONING SYSTEM
S.P. Ra
R/A
Return Air
Filter
Supply
Air
O/A FAN
Supply
Air
FAN
AIR-CONDITIONED ROOM
NOT TO SCALE
AIR DISTRIBUTION - DUCTS
Generally,
1. Available Space
2. Friction Loss
BEAM
MAXIMUM
PERMISSIBLE DEPTH
FALSE CEILING
30° 45°
PLAN
COIL
30° 45°
ELEVATION
30 deg C 5 deg C
12 deg C
45 deg C 14 deg C
Air-Conditioned Ro