Saturday 25 June 2011

Low Powered Personal Air Conditioning

Conventional air conditioning requires an entire room or at least a cabin to be cooled by a 0.75 ton and above air conditioning unit. As the size of the room increases the power requirements of the AC increase too. Even if the number of people in the room are few or even one, the AC has to cool the entire room. For the common man, this luxury is in-affordable. The overall heat generation of these ACs in the environment and the subsequent increase in surrounding temperatures is another factor to be kept in mind.

Most people generally have a refrigerator in their homes, even if it is a small one like a 165 Litre model. It consumes about 400 to 500 Watts of power and its monthly bills are affordable. Now if we take a refrigerator like that and reshape it in the form of a custom bubble over an office chair, a relaxing sofa or a bed, then it becomes a personal AC that provides just the right cooling to the individual without the need to cool the entire room. The power bills will be very low just like having another refrigerator. Large rooms will not have to be cooled, instead just the individual seating or sleeping area is cooled. Receptionists, security personnel, sitting in large halls need not suffer in the heat. They can be provided with this system for of personal cooling. You come home tired due to the heat and daily grind and simply relax in your AC enabled sofa without worry. When you sleep in the night you don't worry about your power bills for the full night's room cooling. Just sleep cool in your personal AC bubble bed. For commercial organisations, it will have an added advantage of the employees not wanting to leave their personal AC chairs to kill time elsewhere. Heat generation of these devices will also be low just like a small refrigerator. Power to these devices is switched on only when the person is using it.

Materials used in these AC chairs, sofas and beds should be the type that are best suited for efficient and quick cooling. Some amount of outside air should also be mixed with the air inside to keep the air healthy.

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