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Energetic and economic savings of free cooling in different European climates

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  • Renato M. Lazzarin
  • Marco Noro

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Free cooling is sometimes useful to face up not only ventilation load but also cooling load as well, taking advantage, directly or indirectly, of the enthalpy difference between inside and outside air in summer. The paper reports on the analysis of the energetic advantage of direct and indirect evaporative cooling (IEC) techniques conducted in summer in different European climates, in which external air flow is established by outdoor, indoor and inlet air enthalpies comparison. Psychrometric diagram has been divided into seven zones as a function of external air conditions; for each zone outside air flow control logic and obtainable free cooling effect have been developed and evaluated. As a function of indoor conditions, outdoor conditions (expressed hourly by Typical Meteorological Year), inlet temperature, external ventilation air flow and building cooling load, energy savings with free cooling techniques have been calculated, considering water consumptions in the adiabatic saturators. Interaction of free cooling, sensible heat recovery and IEC allows very interesting seasonal cooling load reductions, with the additional advantage of decreasing the chiller cooling capacity. All the energetic advantages have been evaluated by an economic point of view, in terms of net present worth and discounted payback period of the investment. Copyright The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org, Oxford University Press.

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  • Renato M. Lazzarin & Marco Noro, 2009. "Energetic and economic savings of free cooling in different European climates," International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies, Oxford University Press, vol. 4(4), pages 213-223, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:ijlctc:v:4:y:2009:i:4:p:213-223
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    2. Rafael Suárez & Rocío Escandón & Ramón López-Pérez & Ángel Luis León-Rodríguez & Tillmann Klein & Sacha Silvester, 2018. "Impact of Climate Change: Environmental Assessment of Passive Solutions in a Single-Family Home in Southern Spain," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(8), pages 1-17, August.
    3. Tejero-González, Ana & Andrés-Chicote, Manuel & García-Ibáñez, Paola & Velasco-Gómez, Eloy & Rey-Martínez, Francisco Javier, 2016. "Assessing the applicability of passive cooling and heating techniques through climate factors: An overview," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 727-742.

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