An application has been created that allows air conditioning systems to significantly reduce consumption
11th November 2016 - A storage device, applicable to systems conditioned air for civil use, it will allow an energy saving equal to 20 / 30%. It is what was conceived by prof. Marcello De Falco, teacher of Degree in Chemical Engineering for Sustainable Development and responsible forProcess Engineering Research Unit ofUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma.
A work that earned De Falco the prize for the "best paper" within theICMSET 2016 - International Conference on Material Science and Engineering Technology, held in Phuket, Thailand, from 14 to 16 October. Selected out of 200 works from 25 countries, the project is part of one of the research lines of the degree course in Chemical Engineering for Sustainable Development dedicated precisely to energy efficiency.
But how? The device made uses a particular material capable of solidifying at a constant temperature of 5° and characterized by a high latent heat, two conditions that allow for the storage of a large amount of energy. The latter is therefore "to the rescue" of the air conditioning system, avoiding energy peaks with the relative exaggerated consumption, according to a strategy known as "peak shaving”. All this is possible only thanks to a fundamental heat exchange system between the material (Phase Change Material) used in the device and the cold water flowing into the coils of the air conditioner.
A result that the company Upgrading Services decided to patent with the creation of 30 kWh prototypes for systems used in office buildings.
