Department of Chemical and Process Engineering

CP 305 – Energy System Design -Design of Air conditioning system - 2020

Design a suitable air conditioner for a lecture hall bounded to a large building of an institute
at Peradeniya, with maximum seating capacity of 60. All the walls of the Lecture room are
made with concrete. One wider wall of the conference room is west facing and expose to the
sunlight, contain 10 windows of in same size. Other wider wall contain main entrance to the
lecture room is attached to the main building which has not being air-conditioned. Two
narrow sides of the space are north and south facing and contain 5 windows on each side
with the same features of windows on other side. Consider the lectures are normally started
at 8.00 am and finished at 4.00 pm and maximum lecturing time as 2 hours and students
keep on inter changing accordingly. All the students leave the space on 12.00 noon and
return to the space at 1.00 PM for their lunch. 10 lights, multimedia projector and laptop
computer are on during the working hours. The other features of the space and the diagram
with dimensions are provided bellow. You may assume any missing data.

Height of the wall - 3m

Flow area - 40 × 30 m2
Outside the room - 300C dry bulb and the 240 C wet bulb temperatures
Room states to be maintained - 220C dry bulb and 50% relative humidity
Walls concrete - you could select wall group
Windows - 2× 0.5 m2 Single clear glass without interior shading
Lightings - 10 of 50 W of CFL bulbs
Multimedia projector Wattage - 1000W
Roof - roof tiles type 4 constructions
Door (main entrance) - 1.4 × 2.5 m2
0.5 m

N 30 m

2m

Plan of the Space 40 m

Size of the Window