Abstract
Earth-air heat exchanger (EAHE) is a low-carbon device that use renewable energy to improve the thermal environment of buildings by heating/cooling the air with the help of the thermal inertia of the soil. However, the traditional earth-air heat exchanger has the problem of large fluctuations in air temperature with the outdoor air temperature fluctuations. A system that combines an air supply chamber with an EAHE is proposed to address this problem. The outdoor air first enters the underground air supply static pressure chamber for initial cooling, and then enters the EAHE treatment. To investigate the effect of this air supply static pressure chamber on the cooling performance of EAHE, a three-dimensional numerical model was developed in ANSYS Fluent and validated with field measurement data. Then comparative studies of the EAHE system with a supply air static pressure chamber and the traditionnal EAHE system were conducted under summer conditions in Chongqing (China). The results show that the air supply static pressure chamber can reduce the EAHE outlet air temperature fluctuation by 31.98% at the maximum under the continuous operation of different air volume systems for 7 days. At the same time, the cooling capacity can be increased by 19.89% at maximum compared with the conventional EAHE cooling capacity.
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