An approach to low energy cooling and ventilation that the system’s supplier says can reduce energy consumption by between 80 and 90 per cent when compared with air-conditioning.
Cooling and ventilation is an intelligent and refined art, particularly in an environment such as a hospital or other healthcare facility, where temperature and cost management are of the utmost importance. Monodraught’s marketing communications manager, Melissa Vanegas Restrepo, discusses the company’s low energy cooling and ventilation system, which it says will typically reduce energy consumption by between 80% and 90% in measured case studies when compared with air-conditioning.
Elaborate building structures, energy recycling schemes, careful rack design, and even extreme locations, are just some of the numerous steps taken in the quest for the most efficient way to maintain an optimum operating environment. Talk to any data centre owner about cooling, and the magic words ‘peak load shifting’ and ‘free cooling’ are likely to be high up the list of priorities.
In much the same way that elite motorsport technology funnels down to consumer cars, such intelligent strategies are finding their way into our commercial buildings. Beginning with basic heat recovery concepts of capturing waste heat leaving the building and using it to temper intake air in order to reduce heating bills, the concept of making better use of peak load shifting and free cooling is now readily available for commercial builds in the form of Monodraught’s Cool-phase system.
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