COMPARISON OF COOLING LOADS IN HOT CLIMATES

Abstract

In hot climates, the hot period is longer than the cold period. Therefore, in hot zones, the dominant hot period conditions are critical for the cooling load. Recently, climatic changes due to environmental pollution problems, such as heat effect and global warming, have given primary signifiance to energy consumption issues and cooling. This reserch aims to compare the cooling load of a building in hot climate: The city of Antalya for the hot humid and the city of Diyarbakir for hot dry climatic types are chosen as sample cases. The calculation of cooling load is based on the Cooling Load Temperature Difference (CLTD) method, which is operated on a simple building for the day of design, 21 July. The cooling load calculations are evaluated by compare the results of the two different climate types.