Calculating the load on the room cooling ceiling panel at convective heat gains

Abstract

A well-known statement of the theory of thermal stability asserts that when a harmonically time-changing convective heat flux enters a room, it can only be assimilated by a radiant cooling system if the assimilating flow exceeds the perturbing convective flow in magnitude. However, in engineering practice, there are no purely radiant systems. Therefore, the article has considered a ceiling cooling panel as a room cooling system, the heat flow from which is of a radiant-convective nature. The convective heat access to the room is constant during the working hours from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The task of determining the load on the cooling system has been performed by calculations.. Herewith, the rooms of different internal thermal stability have been considered. According to the calculation results, it has been found that, since the amount of the heat gains remains constant for a long period of time, the process of the room cooling comes almost to a stationary state and does not depend on the room thermal stability with assimilated heat gains, the value of which in different options varied from 100 W to 1000 W. It has been found, that when the temperature difference between the panel surface and the surrounding surfaces increases, the proportion of the convective assimilating flow becomes bigger.