Abstract 

Inspiration

The Problem

The Outline of a Solution

The Main Cooling System and its Essential Elements

A Protected Room and its Thermal Shield

The Fluid Pressure

Headers and Downcomers

Natural or Assisted Circulation

Isometric Outline of the Main Structure Cooling System

Isometric Outline of a Protected Room

References

A high-rise building needs a lot of further structures, in addition to the cooling channels described hitherto. Some of them may be placed inside, others outside the protected room. The former may but do not need consist of similar cooled elements as above described. For the latter, similar cooling is at least recommended.

Not all of the cooling channels can be placed vertically. Small slopes shall be either avoided or incorporated in cycles with circulation assisted by pumps. Neither is it possible to arrange all paths without cross connections. Joining of streams on their parallel ways upwards or downwards is usually unproblematic, provided the cross sections of all branches are properly selected. Branching of any path shall be, however, avoided, especially if water can evaporate in any of the branches.

The content of this paper is restricted to a simplified description of the fundamental features of the suggested system. Besides, a number of additional important questions has been examined but, for the sake of brevity, not addressed here. No fundamental obstacle for implementation of the suggested system has been detected so far, but it is understood that all details remain to be solved for any particular project by an adequate project team. Within such a team, Silberring Engineering Ltd. will deliver for every particular solution its Process Design and any associated information or activity that might be requested by the leading civil engineer.

Patent applications for the inventions described in this publication are pending.

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