Study on Reduction of Cooling Energy for Air Conditioning by Flexible Space Compartmentalization in Residential Houses

An increase consumption of electricity in the domestic sector is increasing sharply due to the high demand of air conditioning usage in homes. This situation can be observed worldwide, thus the emissions of greenhouse effect gases is increasing as a consequence of the high energy consumption in home cooling systems. Air conditioning consumes a lot of energy in domestic electricity use and there is a huge interest of finding ways to reduce this energy consumption. The use of air conditioner for many hours during sleeping time at night is considered to be one of the moments when a lot of energy is wasted to cool the whole room when the real area that needs to be cooled at that moment is the one covering the bed. One way of trying to reduce the energy use by air conditioner at night it is to reduce the cooling space so that the cooling energy required by the air conditioning unit can be decreased.