Loughborough University
Browse
Thesis-2003-AlAjmi.pdf (12.97 MB)

The potential for ground-sourced cooling of domestic buildings in desert

Download (12.97 MB)
thesis
posted on 2018-08-15, 11:55 authored by Farraj F. Al-Ajmi
In many dry desert climates such as in Kuwait, the summer season is long with a mean daily maximum temperature of 45°C. A round 80% of total electricity generation is consumed by air-conditioning systems in domestic buildings. A hybrid cooling technique to reduce the domestic cooling demand would have both environmental and economic benefits for Kuwait. A passive cooling technique, which assists the situation, is ground cooling. In this thesis a thermal model of an earth air heat exchanger (EAHE) has been developed to calculate the pre-cooling of ventilation air that can be achieved for a building through use of a buried pipe below ground surface. [Continues.]

Funding

Kuwait, Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET).

History

School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Publisher

© Farraj Al-Ajmi

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2003

Notes

A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.

Language

  • en

Usage metrics

    Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Theses

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC