The total power consumption of all semiconductor plants exceeds 100 million kWh per year, with about 43% of this consumption to operate air conditioning facilities. This high power consumption is due to the requirement of the cleanliness kept for clean rooms, with extremely high power consumed to the air transferring power. Oki developed the fan module unit (FMU) type air conditioning system to...

Environmental control strategy via computerized implementation is one of the most efficient approaches to integrate new advanced knowledge in research of human thermal comfort to a mechanical air-conditioning unit. Recently, a new conceptual development in designing air-conditioning systems has indicated that the indoor comfort temperature strongly depends upon changes of the outdoor air temper...

Four simulation sub-models of four main parts; namely, photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) collector, silica gel dehumidification unit, living space and air conditioning system, have been developed for a detailed transient simulation model for a hybrid PV/T solar air heating system for regenerating silica gel in air conditioning room. The models are explained along with algorithms for making quantitati...

In Japan, room air conditioners, mainly heat-pump type, have been widely introduced into households. And "one unit to one room" really features today rather than "one unit to one home" in the past. In the circumstances where room-by-room air conditioning or all-season air conditioning systems are increasing, reduction of electric power consumption strongly required. As a consequence, the effici...