HEATING AND VENTILATION SYSTEM PLAN

Building Heating and Ventilation System Plan

Building Heating and Ventilation System Plan

Introduction

Cooling and heating operations in the buildings account for about 44 percent of the total use of energy of the building. Thus, it is necessary to ensure that whether these systems are operating in best form and with high efficiencies in order to save the money (Blagojevich, n.d., p.1).

Steam and Hot water form an essential component of a variety of commercial and industrial applications and with the rise in the prices of oil, there has never been a healthier instance to consider heating water and air for commercial use by using energy from the Sun (Tata BP Solar India Ltd, n.d., Pp.3-4).

The solar heating system will provide zero or low carbon and will provide energy efficient cooling and heating technology for commercial as well as industrial buildings. These solar heating and cooling systems will help in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2 Giga tons. Moreover, these solar heating systems save approximately 719 million tons oil equivalent of energy by the year 2050. These technologies which include thermal energy storage, solar thermal, heat pumps and combined power and heat are available today commercially (Iea, 2011, p.5).

Discussion

Suitable Heating Systems

Heating and cooling operations within commercial and industrial buildings account for a considerable and significant part of energy use at numerous commercial, residential, Federal and institutional facilities. Countrywide, around 18 percent of the use of energy in housing buildings and around 4 percent of energy use in commercial buildings is dedicated for water heating. Industries use high power boilers for performing their operations which consumes high amount of energy. Boilers can be used for the heating purpose for accomplishing different heating tasks (B&W, 2006, Pp.4-6).

The suitable boiler for heating systems in accomplishing industrial tasks that can be the used is water tube boiler. Water flows into the boiler's tube and gets entered into the drum of eth boiler in these water tube boilers. The combustion gases are used to heat up the circulating water into the drum of the boiler. The water is then turned into the form of steam inside the drum after the completion of the heating process. These boilers work efficiently in such operations which require high steam pressure and steam demand. The amount of 4,500 - 120,000 kg/hour steam can be provided with high pressures (B&W, 2006, Pp.4-6). The water tube boiler uses 30 KW of gas approximately. The water tube boiler will be suitable because it offers low maintenance and operating costs as well as provides long term reliability in its operations. These boilers work efficiently for producing high pressure. The boiler is comprised of 24 inch lower drum and 36 inch steam drum. The capacity range of the boiler ranges from 8200 to 40000. B&W water tube boilers are present in a huge range of volumes. The B&W water tube boilers contain 8,200 to 260,000 lb/h steam flow, 875F temperature which is superheat temperature and 250 to 1250 psi of design ...