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Air Handling Unit

The document discusses an air handling unit (AHU), which houses central HVAC components like furnaces and air conditioners. It contains items like intake and exhaust louvers to bring in fresh air, filters to remove particles, heating/cooling coils, fans to circulate air through ductwork, and supply/return grilles to distribute conditioned air. The document also briefly describes constant air volume, dual duct, and variable air volume HVAC systems.

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Air Handling Unit

The document discusses an air handling unit (AHU), which houses central HVAC components like furnaces and air conditioners. It contains items like intake and exhaust louvers to bring in fresh air, filters to remove particles, heating/cooling coils, fans to circulate air through ductwork, and supply/return grilles to distribute conditioned air. The document also briefly describes constant air volume, dual duct, and variable air volume HVAC systems.

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Air Handling

Unit
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HVAC System
Air Handling Unit

» Air Handling Unit : This is a cabinet that includes or houses the central
furnace, air conditioner, or heat pump and the plenum and blower assembly
that forces air through the ductwork.
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Intake Louvers
These are the external louvers through which supply air is into the building.
Intake is generally equipped with volume control damper to regulate the amount
of fresh air and economizing the quantity of outside air ducting favorable outside
conditions.

Filters
These are used to remove particles of dust or dirt from the supply air.
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Heating Coils

These heat up the incoming airstream using coils through which hot water is
passed or banks of electric heating elements.

Cooling Coils

These cool the incoming airstream using coils through which refrigerant or water
is passed.
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Supply fans
These are used to circulate the air through the network of ductwork.

Ductwork :
It is a branching network of round or rectangular tubes generally constructed of
sheet metal, fiberglass board, or a flexible plastic and wire composite material
located within the walls, floors and ceilings. The three most common types of
duct material used in home construction are metal, fiberglass duct board , and
flex duct.
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Supply Ductwork :

These carry air from the air handler to the rooms in a house. Typically each room
has at least one supply duct and larger rooms may have several.

Return Ductwork :

These carry air from the conditioned space back to the air handler. Most houses
have only one or two main return ducts located in a central area.
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Supply and Return Plenums

These are boxes made of duct board, metal , drywall or wood that distribute air
to individual ducts or registers.

Terminals reheat heating coils

These use hot water coils or electric heating elements to heat up the air being
supplied to one part of the building according to the temperature in that space.
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Supply and extract grilles :

These are the points at which the air is either supplied into air or extracted from
the space, and may be ceiling-mounted or wall-mounted. Also called diffusers or
registers.

Boots

These connect ductwork to registers


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Extract Fans

These are used to extract the air from the space and discharge it to outside.

Return air duct

These are interconnections between inlet and outlet ductwork sections, which
let a controlled amount of air recirculate around the air conditioning system
when full fresh air is not required.
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Exhaust louvers:

These are the external louvers through which extract air is discharged from the
building
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Where does air comes from and go to?
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What’s in an AHU ?
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Economizer Mode
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Dehumidification
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Humidification
Types of All – Air Systems

There are three major types of Centralized Ducted Air Systems

» Constant Volume Systems (CAV)


» Dual Duct Systems
» Variable Volume Systems
Types of All – Air Systems

Constant Volume Systems (CAV)

» Constant volume systems deliver a constant volume of air and responds to


changing thermal loads by varying air temperature.

» The air volume is usually based on the design cooling load for the given zone

» The ducting and air handling system are sized to match the heat gain from
equipment, lights, exterior , and people.
Applications of CAV

Typical applications include.

» Space with uniform loads (small office buildings, manufacturing plants, retail
etc.)

» Small spaces requiring precision control.


CAV Configurations
Local AHU
Each space is supplied by its own specific unit.
CAV Configurations
Single Zone AHU
Air is supplied to several spaces by a single AHU.
CAV Configurations
Multi Zone AHU
Each space has its own separate supply air duct and the conditions of the supply
air are adjusted by mixing the cool and warm air.
Dual Duct Systems
» Dual or double duct system is an air conditioning system in which cold and
warm air is circulated throughout a building via two parallel ducts. Hot air
flows within one duct, cold air within the other.

» The proportion of hot and cold air delivered to each room within the building
may be controlled by thermostatically operated dampers on the ducts outlet.

» The system is well suited to provide temperature control for individual spaces
or zones in applications include.

⋄ Office Buildings
⋄ Institutional
Dual Duct Systems
Variable Volume System
» Variable Air Volume (VAV) systems use variable volume terminal units or
boxes to vary the airflow in each zone or space in accordance to the
thermostat signals within the space.

» Heating is turned on when the air flow reaches a predetermined minimum. If


more cooling is required, more cold air is introduced into space.

» In the best implementation of these systems, the central air handling unit fan
speed is controlled to maintain a constant duct pressure. An interlock is
arranged between the supply and extract fans. Variable air volume systems
are very common in larger office buildings.
Variable Volume System

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