AIR CONDITIONING
Current trends driving UK market
Jez Smith, partner at LG Comfort Cooling, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of LG Electronics air conditioning, heating and ventilation products singles out five trends that are key in the air conditioning marketplace at this time.
T
here are a number of key issues that are driving the air conditioning marketplace in the UK, many intrinsically linked to the increasing attraction of air conditioning in our homes. This has been helped significantly by the temperatures we have had for much of the summer of 2018, with temperatures of 30°C and night time temperatures in the twenties making sleeping difficult up and down the country, and the need to provide a comfortable working environment in commercial buildings of every size and construction type. With warmer summers and longer periods of warmth than previously, air conditioning is a common requirement in new build developments and increasingly in retrofit opportunities as well.
The first trend we are seeing is design for wellbeing, utilising varying ‘off coil’ temperatures to reduce draughts and create a consistent temperature in our buildings. Traditional system control and regulation is based around sensing changes in the environment by using temperature sensing.
26 October 2018
LG has introduced the industry’s first ‘Dual Sensing’ control system, offering the ability to sense humidity along with temperature. Both sensible and latent loads can be monitored and reacted upon, moving from design considerations to real time adjustment for dry and wet bulb temperatures.
By using ‘smart cooling’ – an automatic refrigerant temperature control logic along with dual sensing capabilities – not only can energy savings of up to 15% be achieved compared to traditional control methods, but the comfort levels within a space can be maintained at optimum conditions. During periods of low humidity, raised evaporative temperature reduces moisture removal rates but meets load conditions, and during high latent loads, the high humidity level’s resultant load can be met, while removing moisture and self-adjusting accordingly to create a more comfortable environment.
Combining energy savings, comfort and wellbeing, LG’s new cassette accessory – the Human Detection Sensor – will switch an air conditioning product on or off in relation
www.acr-news.com
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85 |
Page 86 |
Page 87 |
Page 88 |
Page 89 |
Page 90 |
Page 91 |
Page 92 |
Page 93 |
Page 94 |
Page 95 |
Page 96 |
Page 97 |
Page 98 |
Page 99 |
Page 100 |
Page 101 |
Page 102 |
Page 103 |
Page 104
