Cooling without air conditioning

Brian Ford, Nimish Patel, Parul Zaveri and Mark Hewitt

Renewable Energy, 1998, vol. 15, issue 1, 177-182

Abstract: 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.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1016/S0960-1481(98)00150-5

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