Flow Analysis of Various Inlet Velocity Profiles on Indoor Temperature for Energy Conservation of HVAC System Using CFD

Atta ul Mannan Hashmi (), Arshan Ahmed, Fahad Rafi Butt, Shahbaz Ghani and Imran Akhtar
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Atta ul Mannan Hashmi: Department of Mechanical Engineering, NUST College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Arshan Ahmed: Department of Mechanical Engineering, NUST College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Fahad Rafi Butt: Research Associate, Digital Pakistan Lab, NUST College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Shahbaz Ghani: Department of Mechanical Engineering, NUST College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Imran Akhtar: Department of Mechanical Engineering, NUST College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.

International Journal of Innovations in Science & Technology, 2022, vol. 3, issue Special Issue 4, 187–196

Abstract: Energy conservation has been the most popular topic of the modern world. Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems consume approximately 10 % of the total energy of world. In order to improve the efficiency of HVAC systems, two dimensional (2D) room with inlet, outlet and heat source has been modeled. ANSYS Fluent has been used for numerical analysis of air flow in a 2D room. User Defined Functions (UDFs), which are coded in C language and hooked in ANSYS fluent, have been used for recording temperature variations and for heat generation within 2D room. Besides studying velocity fields and temperature distributions within indoor environment under specified boundary conditions, reference region for comparative analysis is also selected during Steady State (SS) numerical simulations. During transient analysis, temperature variations of a selected location are recorded for four different scenarios under varying inlet velocity profiles i.e. three for 0°, 30°, 60° angle with 1.3661 m/s velocity and fourth 0° with 2.7322 m/s velocity. Temperature profile of reference region after 1500 sec of transient simulations are compared with the steady state. Temperature profile of the scenario once the air is injected at 30° closely matched with the steady state temperature profile of the selected region. Time for attainment of SS temperature is also measured and compared after transient simulations. SS temperature value was attained twice, first at 240 seconds when the air was injected at 0° with 2.7322 m/s and secondly at 522 seconds when inlet air entered at velocity of 1.3361 m/s at 30°. The power consumption by increasing the fan speed is much higher as compared to the power consumed for changing direction only.

Keywords: HVAC systems; energy conservation; computational fluid dynamics; user defined functions and heat generation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.33411/IJIST/2021030515

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