Review of underfloor air distribution technology

Kai Zhang; Xiaosong Zhang; Shuhong Li; Xing Jin

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.09.011

Review of underfloor air distribution technology

Kai Zhang, Xiaosong Zhang, Shuhong Li, Xing Jin

Southeast University, Nanjing

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Abstract

Underfloor air distribution (UFAD) system, which is a relative new method of providing conditioned air and ventilation to the commercial buildings and data centers, is focused by researchers and designers for its potential advantages of better indoor thermal comfort (ITC) and indoor air quality (IAQ), layout flexibility, reduced life cycle costs, and energy saving. However, the application of UFAD system are still obstructed by the gap in the fundamental understanding of some new elements, such as the cooling load calculation, control of the thermal stratification, and evaluation of energy consumption. This paper reviews the current situation of UFAD technology, and the existing problems in recent researches are summarized. To improve the performance of UFAD system, several possible directions for the further studies are suggested.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	180-186
Number of pages	7
Journal	Energy and Buildings
Volume	85
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.09.011
State	Published - Dec 2014
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Cooling load
Energy consumption
Thermal comfort
UFAD
Underfloor air distribution

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Review of underfloor air distribution technology

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