Air Conditioning

Air Air Conditioning Conditioning

Summer Air Comfort Air Conditioning Conditioning Residential Buildings Refrigeration System Office Spaces and Complexes Shopping Dehumidifier Automobiles , etc.

Winter Air Industrial Air Conditioning Conditioning Printing plants Heat Pump Textile plants and Photographic products Humidifier Computer rooms, etc.

Air Conditioning System

Functions of Air Conditioning System
Heating/Cooling Humidification/ Dehumidification Ventilation Filtration Air Circulation Expansion valve

Major components of Air Conditioning System (Vapour Compression System)

Compressor

Condenser

Evaporator

AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM

DECENTRALIZED SYSTEM

CENTRALIZED SYSTEM

WINDOW AIR CONDITIONER

SPLIT AIR CONDITIONER

CONSTANT AIR VOLUME SYSTEM

VARIABLE AIR VOLUME SYSTEM

PACKAGED TERMINAL AIR CONDITIONER

VARIABLE REFRIGERENT FLOW SPLIT SYSTEM

ALL WATER SYSTEM

PACKAGED AIR CONDITIONER

SINGLE PACKAGED ROOF TOP SYSTEM

HEAT PUMPS

Decentralized air conditioning systems Advantages:

Lower initial costs Simplified installation Less ductwork or pipes Independent zone control Less floor space requirements for mechanical room, ducts and pipes.

Disadvantages:
Short equipment life Higher noise Higher energy consumption (kW/ton) Not fit where precise environmental conditions need to be maintained.

Central air conditioning Systems

Advantages
Better control of comfort conditions Higher energy efficiency Greater load-management potential

Disadvantages:
More expensive to install Usually more sophisticated to operate and maintain.

Major manufacturers of air conditioning systems in India

Company Mirc Electronics Limited Videocon International Limited LG Electronics India Limited Samsung India Electronics Limited Whirlpool of India Ltd Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd. Brands Onida Videocon LG Samsung Whirlpool Godrej

Voltas Limited
Electrolux Kelvinator Blue Star India Ltd. Daikin Industries, Ltd.

Voltas
Electrolux Blue Star Daikin

Air conditioning applications: apartment buildings, banks, office buildings, shopping complex, hospitals, industrial plants, schools, restaurants, department stores, hotels, etc. The type of application is very important for the selection of AC system. Increased demands for air conditioning have brought about rapid increase in number of air conditioning systems and air conditioner manufacturers. So it is a complex job to get the right AC for the given requirement. There are so many alternative air conditioning systems for particular application along with so many constraints. There are many factors those effect the selection of a suitable AC system. There is no methodology to make the use of all factors for the selection of suitable AC system. The performance of any system is the combined effect of its structure constituents and the interactions between these constituents. There is no model for the evaluation of the combined effect of these constituents and their interactions from different prospectives.

Objectives
To develop a methodology by which design, evaluation and selection of air conditioning system can be made comprehensive and easy, considering various factors affecting the selection. Complete analysis, evaluation, and comparison of the different air conditioning systems available in the global market, and also the ranking and optimum selection of the air conditioning system. To develop an integrated systems model for the structural analysis of air conditioning system, which integrates the different constituents of the air conditioning system and describe the whole system while taking into account the effect of interaction between these constituents. To check the effectiveness of proposed methodology by applying it on an existing air conditioning system.

LITERATURE REVIEW
Literature Survey has been done under Piotr A. Domanski (1998) Sandy Halliday et al. (1999) Malcolm R. Stout Jr. & James W. Leach (2002) C. Lertsatitthanakorn et al. (2002)

Yaw-Shyan Tsay et al. (2006) Clito F.A. Afonso (2006) Qiu Haitao et al. (2006) CAO

System Approach
Multi-Attribute Decision Making (MADM) TOPSIS Ashish Bhateja et al. (1996) P.P. Bhangale et al. (2004) R. T. Durai Prabhakaran et al. (2006) R.K. Garg et al. (2007) C. Phaneendra Kiran et al. (2011) Graph Theoretical Approach R.K. Garg et al. (2006) R.T. D. Prabhakaran et al. (2006) Varinder Singh and V.P. Agrawal (2008) C.P. Kiran et al. (2011)

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But all such factors have not been considered all together in a unified manner. The subsystems are considered independently in design or modeling of an air conditioning system without considering the effect of other subsystems as well as the interaction between them. An exhaustive list of attributes for air conditioning system is not available in the literature. From the literature review regarding system approach, it can be seen that the desired methodologies for optimum selection and for analyzing air conditioning systems, though seen in other different engineering areas, has not yet been developed for air conditioning systems. So there is a need to develop such methodologies and it is hoped that the system approach is useful tool and technique.

Methodology
System Approach:
Technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) a Multi-Attribute Decision Making approach (MADM) approach Graph Theoretic approach