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Mobile air conditioning. International IIR Workshop.

Date: 2002.06.20 / 2002.06.21

Location: Vienna, Austria

Summary

This publication contains 21 papers presented at this IIR workshop, held in Vienna, Austria. Topics: hygiene and indoor environment quality (air conditioning: health implications, lessons learnt; thermal comfort and air quality); thermal comfort (breathing thermal manikin for assessment of indoor environment in spaces; manfitted measurement and visualization of the thermal environment; subjective thermal comfort in railway vehicles; HVAC systems and components (bus-air conditioning: sorption technology; air-cycle air conditioning for railway vehicles; concepts for the future; refrigerant charge and pressure drop during boiling of R134a and CO2 in minichannel exchangers; replacement of Freon-12 to ozone-safe refrigerants in everyday and small cooling units; development of passenger comfort analysis); simulation and CFD (support of vehicle projects using CFD in the design and validation process; CFD in the railroad industry: comfort simulation and thermal management optimization; optimization of R134a and refrigerant circuits in vehicles using simulation tools; railroad air-conditioning system behaviour in transitional thermal regimes; development of a passenger car air-conditioning pull-down simulation tool); HVAC-solutions in different transport modes (aircraft air conditioning; future demands on climate comfort in rail vehicles); energy efficiency (energy saving potential for the air conditioning of railway vehicles; energy management in railway vehicles: analysis of energy consumption under testing conditions); research and testing (the new climatic wind tunnel at RTA).

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  • Original title: Mobile air conditioning. International IIR Workshop.
  • Organiser : IIF-IIR, Arsenal Research, RTA
  • Record ID : 2004-1508
  • Languages: English
  • Number of articles: 12
  • Publication: Rta (rail tec arsenal) fahrzugversuchsanlage - Austria/Austria
  • Conference type: Other IIR event
  • Notes:

    Proc. Vienna int. Workshop, IIR/Arsenal Res./RTA


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