newbie4life
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How should I go about cooling the air intake to my underground room? The air I will be bringing in can reach temps of 100F and will need to be cooled. The room is 20x8x8.
Cooling an underground room?
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Is the room already built or are you really in the design stages?
If it is possible and your 100F air is dry then I would be going with passive cooling so there is no power requirements in the long run. If you take 6-10" diameter plastic pipe and put it in the bottom of a trench +6' deep, and as long as possible, it will cool the air temps down before the air gets to the room. THe deeper and longer the trench the cooler it will get. Ideally you should be able to cool it to 75F or less. Most place have a ground temp in the 52-60F range so if you run enough pipe you can get to those temps and never have to pay an electrical bill to do it.
This costs money and effort to put it in though. It also is not normal in construction, so you are not going to find many people that have ever heard of this let along seen it. Talk to people in the Earthship building community or Earthsheltered buildings. They are sometimes called Earth Tubes. Very alternative.
If it is possible and your 100F air is dry then I would be going with passive cooling so there is no power requirements in the long run. If you take 6-10" diameter plastic pipe and put it in the bottom of a trench +6' deep, and as long as possible, it will cool the air temps down before the air gets to the room. THe deeper and longer the trench the cooler it will get. Ideally you should be able to cool it to 75F or less. Most place have a ground temp in the 52-60F range so if you run enough pipe you can get to those temps and never have to pay an electrical bill to do it.
This costs money and effort to put it in though. It also is not normal in construction, so you are not going to find many people that have ever heard of this let along seen it. Talk to people in the Earthship building community or Earthsheltered buildings. They are sometimes called Earth Tubes. Very alternative.