Sustainable Cooling Technologies – Solar Vapour Absorption Machines (ignore if already represented in syllabus)
The participants are made aware of the environmental, spatial and structural implications of using this technology, in comparison the conventional HVAC systems for building design. The participants are made aware that these techniques are commercially available and easily implementable and are ‘sustainable’ and not alternative technologies. The environmental benefits of this technology since it avoids vapour compression are highlighted. Along with the aforementioned points, the climatic constraints of evaporative cooling and overcoming them by blending with conventional HVAC systems to still derive energy efficiency and low f-gas benefits are explained.