A shipping container that can test passive cooling systems could help researchers and builders find carbon-free ways to keep people cool in extreme temperatures. Researchers created the 60 square-foot chamber to test passive systems that use wind towers along with water evaporation instead of electricity to cool spaces.
A shipping container that can test passive cooling systems could help researchers and builders find carbon-free ways to keep people cool in extreme temperatures.
The test chamber the researchers developed is solar powered with battery storage and is completely independent of grid power. It can be heated to a temperature range between 125 and 130 degrees Fahrenheit year-round to test cooling innovations, measuring the temperature, humidity and air velocity within and around a cooling system.
"There's a lot of new construction with the rising global population that is going to happen in the coming years, and a lot of it is going to be in the developing world," Al-Hassawi said."So if we build like we've been building and continue to rely on mechanical systems to meet cooling demands, that's going to be an issue. There's going to be a lot more air conditioning that's needed, especially with the population rise in the hotter regions of the world.
"It's an older technology, but there's been an attempt to innovate and use a mix of new and existing technologies to improve performance and the cooling capacity of these systems," he said.
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