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ISSN Online: 2377-424X

ISBN Print: 978-1-56700-421-2

International Heat Transfer Conference 15
August, 10-15, 2014, Kyoto, Japan

Heat Balance of Anti-season Ice Cave

Get access (open in a dialog) DOI: 10.1615/IHTC15.ees.009639
pages 2221-2228

Abstrakt

An anti-season ice cave is a cave in which the water freezes in summer but melts in winter. They are usually important tourism resources. These special caves create special dot-sized zones of local climate with special plant communities different from their surrounding plant distribution. In this paper, we focus on the heat balance of an anti-season ice cave, which is the most important factor in its working. The huge heating capacity and the cooling capacity are stored in different part of the talus (warm zone and cold zone). The thermal storage mediums are rocks and water (including ice) in the talus. There are an external energy exchange between the anti-season ice cave and the outside environment and internal energy migration between its warm zone and cold zone. The suspected Joule–Thomson effect in the ASIC is proved to not exist. In mountain areas, the mechanism of anti-season ice cave can be used in the design of energy saving building, which can provide air conditioning in summer by taking advantage of unique local geology rather than common air-condition. It can help to reduce greenhouse emissions and protect the local environment.