Performance and cost-benefit analysis of an integrated earth-air heat exchanger and air handling unit system
Naim Ben Ali, Joy Djuansjah, Ihab Omar, As’ad Alizadeh, Shaymaa Abed Hussein, Walid Aich, Rashid Khan, Milad Faraji · 2025
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Description
Ben Ali and co-authors model a cooling system that pipes air underground before it enters a building, in a 2025 paper. Earth-air heat exchangers use the soil's steady temperature to trim air-conditioning loads. The team tested how pipe shape, burial depth, and wall thickness shape both cooling power and cost.
Rectangular pipes cooled best, reaching eighty-five percent efficiency and cutting air temperature by up to ten and a half degrees. Burying pipes four meters deep nearly doubled compressor savings compared with one meter. A fifteen-meter rectangular pipe buried three to four meters deep balanced savings, about thirty-eight percent, against a payback of under four years.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Naim Ben Ali, Joy Djuansjah, Ihab Omar, As’ad Alizadeh, Shaymaa Abed Hussein, Walid Aich, Rashid Khan, Milad Faraji |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 118 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |