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The traditional thermal environment management of the passenger compartment adopts the unified regulation method. Air distribution formed in this manner often causes thermal comfort and energy consumption problems. In view of the problems of conventional airflow organization, a new air supply strategy-variable air volume and temperature strategy is proposed. In this air supply strategy, variable air volume and variable temperature air supply is carried out according to the characteristics of thermal comfort requirements of passengers in different periods and positions in the cabin. STAR-CCM + software coupled with THESUES-FE software was implemented and compared with different air supply methods. The performance of the air supply strategy was evaluated based on PMV-PPD evaluation index. The results show that the variable air volume variable temperature air supply strategy has certain advantages and improves the thermal comfort level of the crew cabin. The cooling capacity of the automobile air conditioning is allocated effectively, thus improving the satisfaction of the occupants to the thermal environment. This strategy not only saves energy, but also improves the cooling effect in the cabin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Modeling of the aerodynamic processes involved in the ventilation of a large production enclosure containing electrical equipment requiring special conditions for air humidity and temperature was performed. A physical-mathematical model of the aerodynamics of ventilation of a production enclosure is presented, taking into account heat exchange with air and the surface of the equipment present in a building and mass exchange with the ambient environment by air filtration through the structural elements. The computational results for non-stationary displacement of air with high humidity from the building by means of ventilation with dried air are presented. The characteristic time of purification of air from excess moisture with air supplied to various parts of a building was determined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An experiment has been carried out for examining the performance of an air conditioning unit under constant outdoor wet-bulb temperature and varied dry-bulb temperature. During the experiment, the wet-bulb temperature of the compartment for outdoor unit was maintained at 22 °C and the dry-bulb temperature was varied from 24°C to 36°C. The increase of outdoor air temperature results in the increase of supply air temperature, discharge temperature, suction temperature, and liquid line temperature. These cause the degradation of the air conditioner performance. An increase of power consumption by 1.4% and decrease of cooling capacity by 0.8% were observed for each 1°C increase of outdoor air temperature. As a result, the energy efficiency ratio drops by 2% for each 1°C increase of outdoor air temperature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]