CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

As global temperatures rises around the world, thermal comfort in buildings,

has become a major concern in commercial buildings and homes, it can
affect the efficiency and productivity of workers. With the development of
national economy and the improvement of living standard, the requirement
of air conditioner increases very quickly to make a comfortable environment
for living and working, which also affect the efficiency and productivity of
occupants while they are at work. Due to this reason, air conditioners are
now becoming a standard accessory for household application. Some multi-
system air conditioners have been developed to satisfy the need of several
rooms in residential and light commercial buildings. It accounts for a major
share of the energy consumption of a building or facility. Energy efficiency
for air conditioners has received increasing attention in recent years with the
intense emphasis on environmental concern and high energy consumption.
As the main energy consumption component of air conditioner, compressor
needs further work to accomplish the transition of performance evaluation
from one operation condition to its actual usage. Due to increment in energy
consumption and prices, the need for less energy consumption has become
a global concern. The Energy consumption for air-conditioning in buildings
accounts almost 50 per cent of the total energy consumption. It has been
acknowledged that 30 per cent of worldwide energy consumption is due to
refrigeration and air conditioning installations, and therefore these systems
has a large impact on energy demand. For this reason, it has been an aim
of many researchers to improve on conventional air conditioning systems,
as this would result in a significant energy economy. Improving the energy
efficiency of air conditioner is one of the fruitful strategies implemented in
tackling energy shortage and thermal issues.

1.2 PROBLEM STATEMENT

Many of the existing air conditioning devices with various levels of
complexities and sophistication has various problems like high consumption
of electrical energy, improper refrigerant charging and faulty operations.
Hence, the need for analyzing and designing of a better air conditioning that
can serve same purpose of providing lesser efficient energy consumption
while providing superior control in maintaining the desired comfortable
temperature at different voltage level.
1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT
The main objective of this project is to analyze, design and implement an
inverter split unit air conditioner unit with automatic voltage regulator and
the project will achieve the following sub-objective
 To analyze the performance of an inverter split air conditioner unit as
compared with the convention air conditioner unit.
 To design and implement an Air conditioner system that is able to
control temperature accurately while considering saving energy
consumption.
 To analyze the efficiency of the cooling system in term of the rate of
heat transfer and power consumption of an inverter split air condition.
 To realize an inverter split air conditioner that is efficient in its
operating costs reduced by at least 10%.