Dedicated Outdoor Air in Parallel with Chilled Ceiling System
The preconditioned OA is then mechanically cooled so that it can be used to remove all of the space-generated latent (moisture) loads, thus decoupling the space sensible (temperature) and latent loads. Once these loads are decoupled, the remaining space sensible loads can be accommodated with any one of many parallel sensible cooling technologies.
In this "proof-of-concept" project, a chilled ceiling or ceiling radiant panel cooling (here after referred to as radiant cooling) is used to remove the remaining sensible cooling loads. By decoupling the sensible and latent loads, building moisture problems, and the associated IAQ problems, are minimized or eliminated.