A method of cooling capacity enhancement of ceiling panel

Abstract

The cooling energy demand in the buildings is quite large nowadays and it will increase rapidly in the near future. Therefore, capacity of existing cooling devices must be increased. In this paper surface corrugation as a method of capacity enhancement of ceiling panels is theoretically investigated. A subject of the analysis is the effect of corrugation length L and corrugation angle β on the panel’s cooling capacity. It is shown that in the typical conditions the cooling power of the panel with modified surface can achieve even 153 W/m2 and it is about up to 2.5 times higher than the power of a reference panel with flat surface.