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Cooling without air conditioning

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  • Ford, Brian
  • Patel, Nimish
  • Zaveri, Parul
  • Hewitt, Mark

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This paper presents results from the first year of monitoring the performance of a laboratory building in the new 14,000m2 Torrent Research Centre in Ahmedabad, India. The capital and running costs of air conditioning of non-domestic buildings in northern India are very substantial, while building costs (compared with northern Europe) are low. A cooling technique which maximises reliance on the building fabric and minimises reliance on mechanical equipment is therefore likely to be cost effective. Passive Downdraught Evaporative Cooling (PDEC) represents such a technique.

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  • Ford, Brian & Patel, Nimish & Zaveri, Parul & Hewitt, Mark, 1998. "Cooling without air conditioning," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 15(1), pages 177-182.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:15:y:1998:i:1:p:177-182
    DOI: 10.1016/S0960-1481(98)00150-5
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    1. Kang, Daeho & Strand, Richard K., 2018. "Performance control of a spray passive down-draft evaporative cooling system," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 222(C), pages 915-931.
    2. Cuce, Pinar Mert & Riffat, Saffa, 2016. "A state of the art review of evaporative cooling systems for building applications," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 54(C), pages 1240-1249.
    3. Julia Lima Toroxel & Sandra Monteiro Silva, 2024. "A Review of Passive Solar Heating and Cooling Technologies Based on Bioclimatic and Vernacular Architecture," Energies, MDPI, vol. 17(5), pages 1-28, February.
    4. Tim Winter, 2013. "An Uncomfortable Truth: Air-Conditioning and Sustainability in Asia," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 45(3), pages 517-531, March.
    5. Kang, Daeho & Strand, Richard K., 2016. "Significance of parameters affecting the performance of a passive down-draft evaporative cooling (PDEC) tower with a spray system," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 178(C), pages 269-280.
    6. Hanif, M. & Mahlia, T.M.I. & Zare, A. & Saksahdan, T.J. & Metselaar, H.S.C., 2014. "Potential energy savings by radiative cooling system for a building in tropical climate," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 32(C), pages 642-650.

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