Environmentally Friendly Air Conditioners

A large part of world suffers from high temperatures, whether they are equatorial or tropical countries, the Middle East or the advances western world, particularly the US. Hostile heat temperatures necessitate the use of air cooler and air conditioners to make the environment more habitable.

However, air conditioners are power hungry and the power bills are huge. The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory has been working on a new process which will reduce dependency on electricity and reduce its consumption a great deal.

This process uses membranes, evaporative cooling and liquid desiccants in a process which will revolutionize cooling and reduce energy consumption by 50-90 percent. It relies on the desiccants’ capacity to create dry air using heat and evaporative coolers’ capacity to take dry air and make cold air, thus cooling temperatures considerably, without putting a heavy load on energy consumption.

The DEVap is ecologically friendly as it does not depend on harmful CFCs and HCFCs which release carbon dioxide and contribute to global warming. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has patented this process and we hope it soon finds commercial use.

Category: Consumer Electronics, New Developments, Power