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Parametric Analysis on an Earth-to-Air Heat Exchanger Employed in an Air Conditioning System
| Content Provider | MDPI |
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| Author | D’Agostino, Diana Esposito, Francesco Greco, Adriana Masselli, Claudia Minichiello, Francesco |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | This paper is focused on the resort to geothermal energy, through the employment of an Earth-to-Air-Heat Exchanger (EAHX) positioned upstream of the air-handling unit of an air conditioning system, for an office building in Naples (South Italy). The aim is to evaluate the energy performances of this unusual system compared to the common solution of external air directly entering the air-handling unit. The EAHX is extensively designed and two-dimensionally modeled, and the analysis is solved with finite element method. The model is validated with experimental data and this comparison shows good agreement. With the requirement of providing the building with 1300 m3 h−1 of external airflow, different design solutions for the EAHX are studied, by varying the diameter (in the range 0.2–0.5 m) and length (between 20 and 140 m) of the buried pipes. The results indicate that: smaller tube diameters enhance the heat transfer; a tube length between 80 and 100 m is recommended. Using the EAHX, the reduction of the thermal power of the coils in the air-handling unit is greater than 40% in most cases. Finally, the efficiency of the EAHX is assessed as a function of the tube length and diameter, reaching values up to 0.9. |
| Starting Page | 2925 |
| e-ISSN | 19961073 |
| DOI | 10.3390/en13112925 |
| Journal | Energies |
| Issue Number | 11 |
| Volume Number | 13 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2020-06-07 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Energies Civil Engineering Geothermal Energy Earth-to-air Heat Exchanger Numerical Model Parametric Study Energy Recovery Air Conditioning |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
