Advanced Electric Engines to Replace Old Engines in Iran’s Water-Cooled Air Conditioners
One of the most important features of standard in the new engines is the removal of categories B, C and D from the classification of energy labels, and thus, from the next season which will begin in early March, water-cooled air conditioners will be produced only with energy efficiency categories A and A+, A++ and A+++.
Air conditioner manufacturers should put the widespread use of high-efficiency electric motors, specially PMSM and BLDC technologies, on their agenda.
It is expected that with the mandatory and strict monitoring of implementation of this standard, an annual reduction of 300 megawatts in electricity demand and 10 million cubic meters of water consumption can be achieved.
In a relevant development in July, researchers at a knowledge-based company in Iran have produced solar-powered air conditioners using a special polymer that consume very little amount of energy to operate.
“The researchers at this company have succeeded in producing special air conditioners. We used polymer in the construction of this air conditioner, which makes the product anti-rust and highly resistant, for example against the sunlight,” Rouhollah Habibi, the managing director of a knowledge-based company said in an interview with ANA.
“The electric motor and pump of the air conditioner are completely waterproof and consume less when they are launched as compared to other motors. This reduces energy consumption by 60%,” the researcher said.
The managing director of the knowledge-based firm further said that the polymer air-conditioner has electrical fluctuation protection, input voltage and motor overheating protection, adding that the air conditioner has other properties which make it superior in comparison with other counterparts such as automatic temperature checker to check the temperature degree in the building, automatic and manual 7-degree motor rotation speed, waterproof pump and powerful water pump and a modular design which make it easy to assemble and disintegrate it to carry it somewhere else.
“Solar power panels can be used to run polymer air conditioner made in this knowledge-based company, which will reduce electricity and water consumption,” Habibi continued.
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