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Passive Heating and Cooling Concepts

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A building separates the inside spaces from outside environment for creating stable and comfortable thermal conditions for the occupants. The internal environment within building results from the response of the building to the changing outdoor solar radiation, temperature, humidity, wind velocity and sky conditions. Different building elements like roof walls etc. (with different orientation, thickness, surface emissivity and structure) react differently to the outdoor conditions. The building should be designed so that it opens itself to those climatic factors which make the seasonal conditions more comfortable and closes itself to the ones, which make seasonal comfort worst, this reduces the heating and cooling load of the building. Passive technologies aim at maximizing the effect of this approach by choosing proper orientation of the building, size and location of windows, shading and ventilation devices, colour of outer surfaces, thermal resistance and heat capacities of the building elements etc. So that building opens itself to the favourable conditions of sun, wind, humidity, ambient temperature and sky and closes itself to the unfavourable conditions. The term passive applies to techniques which utilize the natural modes of energy transfer viz. radiation, conduction, convection and evaporation; however, it does not exclude the use of simple devices such as fans and pumps, for moving air.

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    R. L. Sawhney, M. S. Sodha & N. K. Bansal

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  1. Centre of Energy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India

    H. P. Garg

  2. Department of Non-Conventional Energy Sources, Ministry of Energy, New Delhi, India

    M. Dayal

  3. International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

    G. Furlan

  4. Department of Engineering, The University of Reading, Reading, USA

    A. A. M. Sayigh

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Sawhney, R.L., Sodha, M.S., Bansal, N.K. (1987). Passive Heating and Cooling Concepts. In: Garg, H.P., Dayal, M., Furlan, G., Sayigh, A.A.M. (eds) Physics and Technology of Solar Energy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3939-4_10

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