Developing an Innovative Strategy to Achieve Energy Saving for Air Conditioning

The proposal of this this study is to develop an innovative strategy to achieve energy saving for air conditioning (AC). In this research, an eco-wall and cooling model of building has been developed to consider the outside temperature (Tout) and thermal characteristics of a building. To evaluate the electrical energy cost (EC), discrete time optimization was applied to find the minimum electrical EC for the air conditioning (AC). As a result, the electrical EC of AC can be minimized to be IDR 25,200. In addition, this model has been tested on a sample building in Barru, South Sulawesi.