Industrial buildings, due to their robust scale, tend to have large volumes of air. This generates a strong incentive for companies to douse of air conditioningto obtain good industrial air conditioning.
However, despite obtaining an air-conditioned environment, the energy expenditurebecome quite high.
Let's think of a room that searches thermal comfortthrough artificial industrial air conditioning, for example.
Artificial ventilation systems are major villains inenergy consumption, and in fact we do not even have a guarantee that thermal comfort will be achieved successfully.
So what would be a good option?
Why Natural Ventilation Could Be Your Choice
Cooling through natural ventilationhas become a very attractive alternative to alleviate the challenges associated with industrial air conditioning.
This is fundamentally due to enabling large savings in energy, which occurs mainly through the replacement or reduction in the demand for use of the two biggest villains in the industry when it comes to energy consumption:climate control systems (air conditioning) and forced ventilation (fans and mechanical exhaust fans).
Therefore, there is a growing interest in the application of natural ventilation in industry due to its advantages, such ascost reduction; improvement in indoor air quality and thermal comfort, as mentioned below.
Thermal comfort and natural ventilation
Very hot or very cold environments can compromise the well-being and productivity of workers in the industry.
Added to this is the fact that it is very common for workers to spend a lot of time indoors, which can last up to eight hours or more.
In this way, creating a thermally pleasant environment with goodair quality,reveals to us that industrial air conditioning is in fact very important so that employees can perform their duties in a healthy and effective way.
With natural ventilation a high satisfaction rate can be achieved, as it contributes to theoptimization of several factors that influence the quality of a closed environment,as:
- Air temperature;
- Air renewal;
- Relative air humidity;
- Temperature of internal surfaces.
Natural ventilation and energy savings in industrial air conditioning
In fact, thermal comfort plays a key role in industrial warehouses, however, this is not the only challenge when it comes to industrial air conditioning, so that we have employees performing their activities withhigh utilization, at the same time as there islow energy consumption.
The current context reveals that several buildings are taking care in projects focused on sustainability, which includes the use of natural ventilation as an alternative to replacing air conditioning systems.
To illustrate some of these solutions and projects, especially in buildings with large glazed facades, it is interesting to have allies such as brises to limit the incidence of sunlight, or in industrial warehouses,lanterns and shutters.
Industrial lanterns and shutters for industrial air conditioning
The most common solution in industrial buildings for natural ventilation, including thermal comfort and energy savings, is to enable constant and natural air circulation inside the industrial warehouse.
The MB Group offers solutions based on this principle, such as industrial shutters– which in addition to creating air entry, also favors natural lighting.
Another MB Group solution is the usher, which consists of a structure installed on industrial roofs, overlapping the ridge (the highest point) of the buildings, and has openings in its upper part that allow theventilation and at the same time the entry of natural light into the internal environment.
Louvers can be used in conjunction with shutters to create a constant and more efficient air circulation system.
Contact usand learn how industrial air conditioning can be provided with much greater energy savings and sustainability.
