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ABSTRACT
Airconditioning is an energy-and resource-hungry technology
that has become a major contributor to global warming.
Zero Impact Structure Cooling or Therm-O-Drain is an
attempt to use thetechniques of our ancestors to reduce or
even eliminate the need for airconditioning.
I. Create barriers
II. Build massive structures and use them as thermal
capacitors.
III. Drain out the stored heat.
I.Create barriers
II.Build massive structures and use them as thermal
capacitors
III.Drain out the stored heat
PROBLEM
Air conditioning systems use refrigeration to pump heat out
of conditioned space to achieve thermal comfort.
Pumping requires energy. To cool a small room, even an
efficient air conditioner would use one kilowatt of electricity.
To supply this unit, the power plant would have to burn four
kW equivalent units of primary energy such as oil or coal
etc., due to inefficiencies and losses.
Six more primary units are used in drilling, pumping and
transporting fuel to the power station.
Thus ten units of primary energy are used for running an air
conditioner using one kW.
Each kW equivalent unit of primary energy would emit
approximately one half kg of CO2 into the atmosphere.
None of these require any energy at all. Still all our heritage
buildings remain within a comfortable temperature range
throughout the year. They have zero global warming potential
and zero carbon emissions.
Classic Examples
The Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur.
Size 205 feet square
Walls 10 feet thick
Wall Height 110 ft.
Total Height 200 ft.
Dome diameter
Outside 144 feet
Inside 125 feet
Uninterrupted Area 18337 Sq. ft
INSTALLATION
THE KABRA HOUSE AT JAIPUR
INSTALLATION SCHEMATIC
THERM-O-DRAIN
An affordable and sustainable cooling system.
Based on Indian heritage and modern technology.
An innovate, very simple thermal cooling system that has no
impact on the environment, costs little to implement and has
zero running cost.
Pilot project installed at Thacker IndustrialEstate, N. M.
Joshi Marg, Mumbai 400 001.
Step 1
OPERATION
A pump in the insulated tank (on right) circulates water.
Then it picks up heat from the slab (extreme left).
After that it is cooled by a passive heat pipe heat exchanger
(left).
Finally it returns to the same tank, closing the loop.
Step 2
Step 3
CONCLUSIONS
SKY RADIATOR
One square meter sheet of aluminium.
With a serpentine copper coil attached to it.
Coated with a barite rich paint resulting in high emissivity.
Laid horizontal to get maximum exposure to the sky.
Water is pumped only when the panel is cooler than the
ambient temperature.
300 Watt solar panel PV set with a battery back up to run the
system completely on solar energy.
After that, we painted the treated slab with a barite rich paint
resulting in high emissivity. Because of the radiant heat
transfer effect, the slab cool downs.
RESULTS
REFERENCES
MR. SURENDRA SHAH,
PANASIA ENGINEERS PVT LTD.
Thacker Industrial Estate, N. M. Joshi Marg,
Mumbai 400 001.
www,panasiaengineers,com