The building projects' power consumption and CO2 emissions are 40% and 33%, respectively. It is a viable strategy to use phase change material in energy storage to provide free cooling. There are few studies on free cooling in hot climates, so the proposed system uses paraffin as a thermal storage material for free cooling and ventilation. The project contains a cooling tower, a horizontal slab heat exchanger between air and phase change material, and an indirect compact heat exchanger between air and water. The energy equation is computed using Engineering Equation Solver software to assess the overall system perform properly. The model investigated the parameters that affect the system's performance under various climate conditions. The system has improved indoor air quality by providing ventilation and extending the period of thermal comfort. The system's performance is determined by the cooling tower's performance and the Air to PCM and Air to water heat exchangers. The Air to PCM heat exchanger reduces supply temperature by 2°C with a slight pressure drop < 20Pa and does not affect system power consumption.

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Air conditioning accounts for roughly half of all energy consumption in residential buildings. Today’s issue is optimizing the air conditioning system and methods of conveying heated and cooled air to prevent additional energy consumption. The optimal supply and return duct position is studied and the results based on the minimum air temperature and pressure in the room, while the room air distribution is taken into account. The main objective of air conditioning, which is impacted by duct position, is to provide thermal comfort in the room. Using Computational Fluid Dynamic, a controlled zone is designed and analyzed in the room with fourteen different duct position cases (ANSYS - FLUENT). The duct position is then optimized based on thermal comfort and uniform distribution of air temperature. The findings revealed that the location of supply and return ducts has a significant impact on minimum room air temperature and room air distributions. Across all cases, the temperature ranges from (294 K to 297 K).