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Title: Development of energy saving automatic air conditioner

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OSTI ID:5502793

This paper discusses an automatic air conditioner which adopts a new energy saving control method for controlling heat exchange at the heater and the cooler instead of the conventional reheat air-mix one. In this new air conditioner, the cooler does not work when the passenger room is heated and similarly the heater does not work when the passenger room is cooled, minimizing the use rate of the cooler which accounts for the most of the air conditioner's power consumption. Nonetheless, the heat released from the air conditioner to the room can be adjusted smoothly from maximum cooling to maximum heating just the same as in the conventional type. The results of on-vehicle comparison tests of the above two methods have shown that the energy saving control method saves nearly half of the energy which is consumed in a year with the conventional one, with the room being kept around 25/sup 0/C (77/sup 0/F).

OSTI ID:
5502793
Report Number(s):
CONF-860263-
Resource Relation:
Conference: Society of Automotive Engineers international congress and exposition, Detroit, MI, USA, 24 Feb 1986
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English