Potential Investigation of Membrane Energy Recovery Ventilators for the Management of Building Air-Conditioning Loads

Hadeed Ashraf; Muhammad Sultan; Muhammad Farooq; Sobhy M. Ibrahim; Uzair Sajjad; Muhammad Wakil Shahzad; Muhammad Usman Khan; Muhammad Ahmad Jamil

doi:10.3390/en15062139

Potential Investigation of Membrane Energy Recovery Ventilators for the Management of Building Air-Conditioning Loads

Hadeed Ashraf
, Muhammad Sultan^*
, Muhammad Farooq
, Sobhy M. Ibrahim
, Uzair Sajjad
, Muhammad Wakil Shahzad
, Muhammad Usman Khan
, Muhammad Ahmad Jamil

^*Corresponding author for this work

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The present study provides insights into the energy-saving potential of a membrane energy recovery ventilator (ERV) for the management of building air-conditioning loads. This study explores direct (DEC), Maisotsenko cycle (MEC) evaporative cooling, and vapor compression (VAC) systems with ERV. Therefore, this study aims to explore possible air-conditioning options in terms of temperature, relative humidity, human thermal comfort, wet bulb effectiveness, energy saving potential, and CO₂ emissions. Eight different combinations of the above-mentioned systems are proposed in this study i.e., DEC, MEC, VAC, MEC-VAC, and their possible combinations with and without ERVs. A building was modeled in DesignBuilder and simulated in EnergyPlus. The MEC-VAC system with ERV achieved the highest temperature gradient, wet bulb effectiveness, energy-saving potential, optimum relative humidity, and relatively lower CO₂ emissions i.e., 19.7^◦C, 2.2, 49%, 48%, and 499.2 kgCO₂/kWh, respectively. Thus, this study concludes the hybrid MEC-VAC system with ERV the optimum system for the management of building air-conditioning loads.

Original language	English
Article number	2139
Journal	Energies
Volume	15
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/en15062139
State	Published - 1 Mar 2022
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

Building air-conditioning
Energy recovery potential
Human thermal comfort
Maisotsenko cycle evaporative cooling
Membrane energy recovery ventilator
Pakistan

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Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Fuel Technology
Engineering (miscellaneous)
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Energy (miscellaneous)
Control and Optimization
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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