Performance of passive cooled hospital complexes in India over a period of 55 years

Conference · Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1999

OSTI ID:20050785

Perrill, C V

This paper reports the Thoburn-Perrill research on climate-oriented buildings and their walk-through air-conditioning tunnels, along with a record of their living and working in these houses and hospitals over a period of 55 years. Also, it provides a short description of much larger, radioactive fall-out shelter tunnels constructed as refuges for patients and hospital workers. The research is based on the Heat-Decay curve developed by Professor W.C. Thoburn in 1940. The tunnel system allowed the conventional air-conditioning system to be downsized by 80%. The operating costs were 20% of the conventional equipment.

• OSTI ID: 20050785
• Resource Relation: Conference: SOLAR 99, Portland, ME (US), 06/12/1999--06/16/1999; Other Information: PBD: 1999; Related Information: In: Solar 99 conference: Proceedings of ASES annual conference -- Proceedings of 24th national passive solar conference, by Campbell-Howe, R.; Wilkins-Crowder, B. [eds.], 779 pages.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
15 GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
INDIA
HOSPITALS
PERFORMANCE
TUNNELS
FALLOUT SHELTERS
GEOTHERMAL AIR CONDITIONING
SEASONAL VARIATIONS