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http://dx.doi.org/10.6110/KJACR.2012.24.4.351

Performance Analysis of Summertime Heat Transfer Characteristics of the Double Skin Window for Plant Factory  

So, Jae-Hyun (Department of Energy System Engineering, Kongju National University)
Kim, Woo-Tae (Department of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Kongju National University)
Publication Information
Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering / v.24, no.4, 2012 , pp. 351-357 More about this Journal
Abstract
To reduce the summertime cooling load of a plant factory, a concept design was performed for the double skin window which utilizes the low temperature air from a ground coupled heat exchanger. The design parameters were selected as the number of cavity air inlet, the cavity thickness, the location of cavity air inlet, and the configuration of cavity air outlet. A parametric study was conducted in a systematic way to evaluate the heat transfer characteristics of the double skin window. As the number of cavity air inlet and the cavity thickness increase, the heat flux from outside air to indoor air was decreased. The effect of the location of cavity air inlet was not significant and the larger cavity air outlet area gave us relatively better heat blocking performance from outside hot air. This study demonstrated that it is possible to develop an improved double skin window by utilizing a ground coupled heat exchanger.
Keywords
Double skin window; Cool tube; Ground coupled heat exchanger; Cooling load;
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