Radiant Cooling

Pujo

Using Radiant Cooled Floors to Condition Large

Spaces and Maintain Comfort Conditions (2000)
This paper describes the development of a hybrid
conditioning system that creates a comfortable indoor
environment in a building. The operation of a variablevolume displacement conditioning system and a radiant
cooled floor have been optimized to reduce the building
load. Control strategies were developed that optimize
energy consumption and contain moisture levels within
specified limits. The development of conditioning-only
occupied zones is shown and how the overall energy
consumption is reduced. Its application in a large airport
is describe

Result
Compared to the original concept (Figure 7), the peak
cooling load was reduced by 35% in the optimized
concept (Figure 8).For the entire airport, a cooling
energy consumption of 191 GWh per year is estimated,
which means 513 kWh for each conditioned square
meter of floor area per year. This is a reduction of 226
kWh/m2 energy savings per year. Bearing in mind that
the airport has a total floor area of 550,000 m2, the
total annual savings are considerable.

Simulation of Radiant Cooling

Performance with Evaporative
Cooling Sources (2008)

This study investigates performance potential, control

strategies, and limitations for slabintegrated radiant
cooling using an indirect-evaporative fluid cooler as the
primary source of cooling supply water. The analysis
focuses on cooling capacity and energy consumption,
while maintaining thermal comfort criteria. An
appropriately optimized all-air VAV system consistent
with the current state of practice for mid-rise
commercial buildings is provided as a point of reference
for both thermal performance and energy consumption.

Result
The simulations demonstrate that hydronic radiant
cooling using an evaporative supply water source in
conjunction with a dedicated outside air system has
significant potential for energy savings. As compared to
a well-optimized conventional VAV system in the
Denver, Sacramento, Los Angeles, and San Francisco
climates, with and without a waterside economizer or
free cooling and a nighttime precooling cycle,
estimated energy savings ranged from 54% to 71%.
Furthermore, the Radiant+DOAS was capable of
providing comparable and sometimes improved thermal
comfort

On-site measured of a radiant floor cooling / heating

system in Xi'an Xianyang International Airport (2014)
This paper concentrates on the operating perfornamce
of the radiant floor system in the airport's large spaces,
especially in the conditions with high density solar
radiation. The test results are analyzed with simple
calculation methods, providing guidance for future
applications with respect to both design and operation.
in addition, the radiant floor system in Terimanl 3 is
compared to jet ventilation system in Terminal 2 in
terms of the effects of the indoor built environment

Result
High-temperature cooling and low-temperature heating is realized by the
radiant floor system in large spaces. The typical cooling capacity of the
radiant floor is 3040 W/m2 with a mean chilled water temperature of 18
C; when there is high-intensity solar radiation (e.g., 120170 W/m2), the
values increase significantly to 110140 W/m2. A heating capacity range
of 3070 W/m2 is provided by the radiant floor with a supplied hot water
temperature of 3540 C, which is sufficient to satisfy the heating
requirement.
The radiant floor cooling and heating system provides a comfortable
thermal environment for occupants, and the indoor air temperature and
humidity distribution throughout the entire space features apparent
stratification in cooling mode and relative uniformity in heating mode. In
contrast to the jet ventilation system in Terminal 2, there is potential for
reducing heat loss through the building envelope in the upper region.

A review of high temperature

cooling systems in tropical buildings
(2015)

High temperature cooling is gaining more attention in commercial

buildings of the tropical climates where temperature and humidity
is high all year round. In this air-water system, radiant-convective
cooling is provided into conditioned space through using higher
chilled water temperature compared to conventional all air system.
Radiant cooling panel, radiant slab cooling, passive/active chilled
beams are the main design strategies for implementing this
concept into buildings. This paper reviewed and summarized the
recent published papers on applications of high temperature
cooling systems in tropical buildings. The reported outcomes and
conclusions from these studies were extracted and discussed to get
a better understanding on overall performance of the systems
which are designed based on this concept.

Result
The potential energy saving of this strategy was estimated to be in
the range of 6 to 51% depending on design strategies and
operational scenarios of system. Comfortable and healthy indoor
environment is achievable for this design when a parallel air system
satisfies latent load and ventilation requirement of space. Low air
movement was the only reported comfort concern for this design
since locally acclimatized occupants in the tropics prefer higher air
movement compared to dry and temperate climates. Regarding the
parallel air system strategy, DOAS with ceiling supply-ceiling
exhaust is suggested to be the best choice to be coupled with high
temperature cooling system. In addition, incorporation of energy
recovery systems like membrane based air to air heat exchanger
into DOAS can improve the overall efficiency of this design.