Solar cooling is a field of great interest for the buildings industry. Solar gains driving cooling loads, and as such, if utilized to drive a cooling system would result in synchronized cooling loads and cooling energy supply. Consider the cooling of your home, apartment, or office during the cooling season. If you are in a region where there is little or no cooling requirement, please imagine your home, apartment, or office in a location where you would need a cooling system. What passive solutions would reduce your cooling requirements? Chapter 15 of the D&B text provides some detailed system schematics and specifications for typical solar cooling systems to give you some ideas.
Write up a 200-300 word mini-proposal of your solar cooling solution(s) for your built environment of choice. Include two schematics:
Prepare both schematics using any convenient software (Power Point, CAD, SketchUp, etc.). Please insert your graphics to your proposal document and save as PDF. Submit your report as a single PDF file to the Lesson 8 Assignment dropbox in Canvas by 11:55 pm Wednesday night.