Apparatus for cooling a room
It is the object of the invention to provide a remedy to the above limitations. The invention, as characterized in the claims, provides a method for climatically conditioning rooms in which the temperature of the cool room unit is no longer restricted by the dew point. The fundamental idea here is to cool the cooling element during cooling phases, which coincide to a great extent with the times during which the climatically conditioned room is in use, to such an extent that condensate deposited on the said element quickly turns to ice and, as a result, no problematical condensation water is produced. During regeneration phases, which are generally chosen to be outside the times of use, the frozen condensate is melted off and drained away in liquid form.
The advantages achieved by the invention are particularly associated with the fact that the temperature of the cooling element can be set as low as desired. As a result, very high cooling capacities can be achieved even with small cooling surfaces, even if the heat exchange with the room to be climatically conditioned takes place exclusively by means of radiation and, little if at all, free convection.
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