Night Cooled Radiant Cooling Panel for Sustainable Building Cooling Mode in Malaysia

Night air temperature in Malaysia is generally about 23°C and is a potential source of heat sink to dissipate heat gain from a building. A thermal storage tank was used to store a certain quantity of water and was passively cooled during the night using the pitched roof as a heat exchanger to chi...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Baharun, Azhaili, Imran, Muhammad Syukri, Ibrahim, Siti Halipah, Abidin, Wan Azlan Wan Zainal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia 2018
Subjects:
Online Access:http://eprints.usm.my/42653/
http://eprints.usm.my/42653/1/jcdc2018.23.1.4.pdf
_version_ 1848879619684433920
author Baharun, Azhaili
Imran, Muhammad Syukri
Ibrahim, Siti Halipah
Abidin, Wan Azlan Wan Zainal
author_facet Baharun, Azhaili
Imran, Muhammad Syukri
Ibrahim, Siti Halipah
Abidin, Wan Azlan Wan Zainal
author_sort Baharun, Azhaili
building USM Institutional Repository
collection Online Access
description Night air temperature in Malaysia is generally about 23°C and is a potential source of heat sink to dissipate heat gain from a building. A thermal storage tank was used to store a certain quantity of water and was passively cooled during the night using the pitched roof as a heat exchanger to chill the water to as low as 22°C. The free cooling of water was then used as a cooling medium to cool the modular radiant cooling panel during the day time when the outdoor temperature exceeds 30°C. The experiment shows that the system was able to maintain an indoor temperature of less than 28°C when the outdoor temperature peaked to nearly 34°C while providing acceptable thermal comfort with certain controlled air movement. The use of the hydronic radiant cooling panel with free night cooled water as its coolant is proven to have signifcant energy saving potential of up to 85% while at the same time provide an acceptable room thermal comfort which meets the international standard criteria such as the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Standard 55.
first_indexed 2025-11-15T17:50:07Z
format Article
id usm-42653
institution Universiti Sains Malaysia
institution_category Local University
language English
last_indexed 2025-11-15T17:50:07Z
publishDate 2018
publisher Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia
recordtype eprints
repository_type Digital Repository
spelling usm-426532018-10-23T02:26:39Z http://eprints.usm.my/42653/ Night Cooled Radiant Cooling Panel for Sustainable Building Cooling Mode in Malaysia Baharun, Azhaili Imran, Muhammad Syukri Ibrahim, Siti Halipah Abidin, Wan Azlan Wan Zainal TH1-9745 Building construction Night air temperature in Malaysia is generally about 23°C and is a potential source of heat sink to dissipate heat gain from a building. A thermal storage tank was used to store a certain quantity of water and was passively cooled during the night using the pitched roof as a heat exchanger to chill the water to as low as 22°C. The free cooling of water was then used as a cooling medium to cool the modular radiant cooling panel during the day time when the outdoor temperature exceeds 30°C. The experiment shows that the system was able to maintain an indoor temperature of less than 28°C when the outdoor temperature peaked to nearly 34°C while providing acceptable thermal comfort with certain controlled air movement. The use of the hydronic radiant cooling panel with free night cooled water as its coolant is proven to have signifcant energy saving potential of up to 85% while at the same time provide an acceptable room thermal comfort which meets the international standard criteria such as the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Standard 55. Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia 2018 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/42653/1/jcdc2018.23.1.4.pdf Baharun, Azhaili and Imran, Muhammad Syukri and Ibrahim, Siti Halipah and Abidin, Wan Azlan Wan Zainal (2018) Night Cooled Radiant Cooling Panel for Sustainable Building Cooling Mode in Malaysia. Journal of Construction in Developing Countries , 23 (1). pp. 61-79. ISSN 1823-6499 http://web.usm.my/jcdc/vol23_1_2018/jcdc2018.23.1.4.pdf
spellingShingle TH1-9745 Building construction
Baharun, Azhaili
Imran, Muhammad Syukri
Ibrahim, Siti Halipah
Abidin, Wan Azlan Wan Zainal
Night Cooled Radiant Cooling Panel for Sustainable Building Cooling Mode in Malaysia
title Night Cooled Radiant Cooling Panel for Sustainable Building Cooling Mode in Malaysia
title_full Night Cooled Radiant Cooling Panel for Sustainable Building Cooling Mode in Malaysia
title_fullStr Night Cooled Radiant Cooling Panel for Sustainable Building Cooling Mode in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Night Cooled Radiant Cooling Panel for Sustainable Building Cooling Mode in Malaysia
title_short Night Cooled Radiant Cooling Panel for Sustainable Building Cooling Mode in Malaysia
title_sort night cooled radiant cooling panel for sustainable building cooling mode in malaysia
topic TH1-9745 Building construction
url http://eprints.usm.my/42653/
http://eprints.usm.my/42653/
http://eprints.usm.my/42653/1/jcdc2018.23.1.4.pdf