School of Architecture,

Building and Design

Bachelor of Quantity Surveying (Hons)

BUILDING SERVICES II (BLD60503)

(Individual Assignment)

Name : YEOH SIN YUEN

Student ID : 0323737
Lecturer : Mr KAM KENN JHUN
Title : Ways How Air Condition System
Enhance Green Technology
Submission Date : 29th May 2017
 The term Green refers to environmental friendly inventions which included
energy efficiency, recyclable and renewable resources, safety and health concerns.
The term technology refers to the application of scientific knowledge for practical
purposes. While green technology means the technologies, methods and materials
used for generating energy are environmental friendly and preserves natural resources.
It generating the energy in a way that minimize the impact to the environment
compared to the traditional ways. Besides, green technology also called as clean
technology which is creating new technologies that try to be harmless to environment,
human and animals. Generally, green technology separates into technologies that deal
with global warming and sustainable technologies. Furthermore, green technology
involves innovative method that enable to produce more environmental friendly
product. It uses the latest techniques to generate energy. Green technology also uses
renewable energy from the nature instead of using harmful resources and allow us to
recycle the waste and solve the problem of disposal. It promotes safety, healthy and
improves environment for all forms of life.

In current summer weather, the demand for air conditioning can be expected to
increase markedly over the coming decade. This is because there are much more
global economic developments has happened, and it will happen, in hot climates. The
requirement for various and creative energy efficient way is highly recommended to
accomplish space cooling. As we know that the simplest way to reduce the damage to
the environment is to control ourselves from using air conditioning excessively in a
working or living space. Either to set few degrees higher of the thermostat and it will
save great energy in long run. However, majority of the people are hard to take part in
those actions because the weather nowadays are really scorching hot. Therefore, here
comes the innovation of Green Air Conditioning System for those people that willing
to support the enhancements to environment but cannot personally reduce their highly
demand of air conditioning. Hence, Green Air Conditioning System is widely spread
due to the air conditioner manufacturers phase out ozone-depleting refrigerants in
their products as they need to accomplish new government regulations. The advanced
technological innovations are also trying to make AC units greener by installing units
with energy-saving technologies or improving a homes energy efficiency. There are
some ways for greener air conditioners to enhance our green technology as well as the
environment.
 Inverter air conditioner is highly suggested for majority housing or office
installation. It offers huge savings and better at maintaining temperature as well as
more powerful compare to those non-inverter air conditioners. Inverter is a device in
air conditioner, it controls power frequency that supplied to compressor motor. Then,
compressor motor controls the rotational speed of the compressor in order to ensure
refrigerant flow is commensurate with the cooling requirement of the room. In
contrast non-inverter air conditioners have fixed compressor that cannot increase or
decrease their speed and refrigerant flow rate according the cooling requirement of the
room and only able to work at one given capacity. Thus, variable speed of the
compressor not only provide a better temperature control but they also able to save
our electric bills as it results lower average power. Inverter air conditioners operate at
maximum capacity on starting. After that, the refrigerant flow rate is increased
consequently and having quick comfort. Those contrast non-inverter air conditioners
have only one fixed capacity so they cannot increase the refrigerant flow rate as
expectation. Therefore, longer time required to meet the desired temperature
compared to inverter air conditioners.

Moreover, Air-cooled chiller and Water-cooled chiller are also recommended as

it commonly used to cool the cooling system fluid or dry air in commercial and
industrial facilities. Chilled water has a wide range of refrigeration space applications
and the process uses. The parts of the water-cooled cooler and the air-cooled cooler
are mostly the same. Each product contains a condenser, compressor, evaporator, and
expansion valve. The main difference is whether air or water is used to provide
cooling for the condenser. The cycle starts at the liquid refrigerant flowing through
the tubular evaporator bundle and evaporates, then releases the heat through the
chilled water by absorbing the heat in the evaporator. The refrigerant vapor of the
evaporator is drawn out by the compressor. Then the compressor "pump" the steam
condenser coolant to increase the pressure and temperature. The air condensate or in a
condenser tubes will release the heat to cooling water or air. From the condenser, the
refrigerant temperature with high pressure liquid refrigerant will go through into the
expansion device of the evaporator to lower the refrigerant pressure . The refrigerant
flows through chilled water coil again to absorb more heat in order to complete the
circulation.
 Furthermore, Thermally-driven chiller also become one of the most reliable green
technology innovation of air conditioner, which considered as the most efficient system. For
example, Chromasun, based in North Sydney, that has created a Thermally-driven chiller, like
Australia, which offering a low-cost alternative to those traditional air-conditioning units that
driven by electrical. It sounds like unreal, but basically these coolers are smartly making use
of solar energy. Besides, natural gas can be added to drive it when short circuit happens. The
company has its own solar panels, producing a sufficiently high temperature to drive the
double effect chiller. It also proved that the company's dual cooling system provides more
cooling effect compare to the photo-voltaic systems and eliminates the cost of electricity bill.
On the other hand, another example is to prove Ice Bear can actually help a lot in saving
energy as the green technology already applied to enhance its performance as air conditioner
system. Ice Energy, the headquartered in Glendale, Calif, using an ice-powered air
conditioning unit named Ice Bear to chill the building and reduce the total energy
consumption in majority cases. For a briefly description, the Ice Bear driven by freezing 450
gallons of water in a tank overnight make sure it is able to use as cooling on the next day.
When the ice bear switched from "Ice Freezing" to "Ice Cooling" mode, it can provides
cooling up to 6 hours. When the ice melts after cooling, the cooling work will returned to the
traditional commercial air conditioning unit of the building, which is why the ice bear works
conjunction with the conventional unit. The company defined the product as the first effective
loss-less energy solution.

Besides those, there still have some simple steps or cautions that need to be
considered to improve and promote green technology through air conditioning system.
Firstly, ensure the air conditioner are not under-sized, so that it will prevent the
electricity from wasting or running up the households energy bills. This is because
the unit cannot balance the air cooled in the units condenser with the humid and
expended air that the evaporator draws out from the home if it is too small. Besides
that, two-stage compressors save more energy as it will compress less on cool days
and more when summer weather automatically due to the compressors actually have
to work hard to squeeze out the heated vapors so that the refrigerant able to return to
its chilled state. On the other hand, some eco-friendly air conditioners try to achieve
an optimum energy efficiency by customized matched system, which are using a
particular source of energy for cooling and different for heating. By customizing each
component of the system from thermostat to the indoors coils, it able to create
different systems based on a homes individual cooling needs. In order to green up an
air conditioning system and make it involve more in green technology, install a
programmable thermostat in the air conditioning systems is also one of the most
affordable ways . This will provides convenience for occupants to program & control
the thermostat to remain off when there is no one at home as well as turn it on and
chill their home automatically before they return.

In a nutshell, air-conditioning system can actually enhance green technology

through the uses of Ice Bear, Water chilled cooler & Air chilled cooler, Inverter air
conditioner, Solar thermal system and so on, which are able to reduce the impact on
natural resources effectively. As we gradually getting advanced, the air conditioner
with non-ozone depleting refrigerant, powerful controls but simple installation as well
as superior efficiency, all these units become ideal for green replacement and new
construction projects. The innovative green air conditioner solutions are designed to
bring efficient, reliable cooling to all types of large commercial applications. Hence,
government should impel more strategic plans in order to emphasize green technology
in different aspect especially in air conditioning system. Try to promote and
encourage citizens to use energy efficiency as well as environmental friendly products
such as green tech devices or renewable energy. It is important to create awareness
among the society and motivate them to participate in GO GREEN activities then
only can lead us to reach our goal of 40% reduction of emission intensity of GDP in
the year 2020 together.

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