Strategic Underground Train Air Conditioning System:

This operation system and patent jointly aim at identifying the entire system, with components that are essential to the overall operating system to be discussed individually. One element will not function without the full functioning of the other elements and components, since all interact with one another to solve the problem of air conditioning underground train systems to bring the comfort those passengers need desperately. The problems and tasks are enormous and complex, and so are the system and the solution. That is the reason it is called SUTACS. The invention proper will be rendered obsolete if the sequence and elements are not respected. The delivery of the major solution is the carriage itself, and it is the main focus, without forgetting the other elements of the system. The entire system and the invention are based on the fundamental principal of heat transfer and air ventilation stimulation to move the heat out of the Underground system. Our forward thinking focuses on the following principle as a vehicle for multiple solutions:

A reduction in temperature and heat is a gain in the ambient temperature and an increase of comfort zone in the surrounding environment.

This patent had its inception at the time of the first mayoral appeal for citizens to develop a solution to the soaring temperatures in the London Underground system. The early work for this patent dates from Spring 2003 and 18th August 2003 officially, which is our first milestone in this project. We engaged with London Underground Limited in early 2007, but tangible cooperation between our organisations was limited because LUL officials ignored our insistence on a confidentiality agreement, due to complex layers of bureaucracy, which is frustrating and time wasting.

LUL did not disclose any information of any kind to us, which we respect and understand. Therefore, everything in the patent and operation system are ours and based on 15 years of pure observation of the system from a passenger’s point view and perspective and frequent use of the system amounting to thousands of journeys. Other developmental methods included simulation, research, and systems development. The inventor worked as an engineer for a consortium of 30 international conglomerates, was in charge of overseeing an international airport project, system design, technical assistance, local engineers’ training, and technology transfer, all in air conditioning and ventilation systems. Therefore, the entire invention of the inventor is his own and original work. The inventor is also an MBA graduate from the Business School of the University of Westminster. He is contemplating research leading to a book about “Taming The Matter” in Nano-Technologies.

The theoretical explanation is essential, vital, and pivotal for all following inventions, innovations, and systems, approximately twenty two items, but for the sake of simplicity divided into eight parts called segments, with most having more than one invention. This arrangement has been determined in order to create simplicity and a logical sequence of operation and because they are going to be expanded into more volumes after the addition of newly discovered data. The writing is simplified for the sake of patent application, as more modification will ensue due to additional research and development.

Diagnosis The current condition of the Underground system is not satisfactory to allow an operational level of improved ventilation, including air conditioning, to flow smoothly and easily. Pollutants are obstacles towards full comfort, and like pre-heating, air conditioning requires a pre-cooling stage, such as air filtration and cleansing of any soil deposits, dust, and hazardous chemicals that result from careless contractors and passengers alike. Pre-cooling or pre-air conditioning is a requisite for the success of a fully responding and effective system and is achievable through a strategic and methodical, technical problem-solving approach. The rigorous system application considers all aspects of health and safety issues and the most due-diligence techniques against terrorism, accidents, and natural disasters. We are simply aiming at nil defect products with permanent room for improvement and development. Steam, humidification, mechanical and natural ventilation, along with a delivery system and components are the means essential and integral to the whole operating system. The London Underground System combined amount to the five largest international airports in the world, and to come simply with one solution is an enormous impossibility. Therefore, multiple solutions should be put on the table, like a menu from which to pick and choose, such as increased ventilation, all air solution, steaming, spraying, all water solution, a mixture of air and water, and ultimately specific refrigerants and high capacity chillers. The proposals altogether represent the solution. Eventually, when established to function as one entity, all parts will back up each other. That will be the birth date and place of SUTACS.

Defining SUTACS: “Strategic Underground Train Air Conditioning System”

Based on, London Underground is a very complex system, and air conditioning in the system should be treated as such. To cool the Tube requires steps and segmentation in technical and operational levels of sequencing. Therefore, any Underground System should be treated as a vast network, like the largest airport in the world that has one system or two (as a stand-by system) or several systems for extra security and to protect against failure, applying the concept of single zone to multi-zones combination.

This technical division and segmentation is pivotal and essential to facilitate full and integral operations and to allow proper management, assessment, and implementation of the cooling system. We have the technical capabilities to achieve the system for our clients. Our delivery method in the initial phase might come as a surprise, and we shall reveal it in due time after having all guarantees to protect our patent and copyrights. From a general perspective and an overall picture, we managed to visualise several solutions and scenarios. Our solutions can be a full cycle improvement on any Underground system.
SUTACS depends on the identification of zones intended for ventilation and air conditioning. The identification of zones can be made in detail, depending on the specific purpose of system dynamics and influencing/ impacting factors. Generally speaking and by air conditioning standards, a single zone is a small area and could be one controlled room, for example. In a larger definition and in commercial terms, a single zone can include several locations with the same thermal conditions and uniform temperature and certain humidity rate. In most cases, a multi-zone system is the most appropriate solution in order to achieve the best results, technical control, and monitoring and administrative accountability. It will allow heat to be constantly on the move out of the system above ground and on to the street.

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