Patent ID: 8469782

Claim:
An air conditioning system for a building requiring a high volume of cooled air, the building having a ground level floor and including an exterior wall that provides a barrier against the external environment and includes a heated air opening disposed adjacent to a return air opening, the system comprising: a warm exhaust outlet duct formed through the heated air opening; a cool air inlet duct formed through the return air opening an air conditioning apparatus connected to and that receives heated air from the warm exhaust outlet duct, connected to and emits cooled air into the cool air inlet duct, and connected to and emits vented air into the external environment through an exhaust opening, the air conditioning apparatus disposed in the external environment, external to the exterior wall, and mounted adjacent the exterior wall on a ground level support structure, the air conditioning apparatus further including: a heat exchange unit containing an exhaust fan disposed in the exhaust opening that emits heat from the heated air as the vented air, thereby allowing return air to pass through a return opening that contains a return damper disposed therein; an outside air inlet including an outside air damper, thereby allowing outside air to pass through the outside air damper; a filter chamber, the filter chamber including an air intake area coupled to the heat exchange unit and the outside air inlet and an air filter, the filter chamber being configurable to receive the return air-based upon a return air damper position, the outside air based upon an outside air damper position, as well as a mixture of the return air and the outside air based upon the return air damper position and the outside air damper position, the filter chamber providing filtered air; a condenser unit coupled to the filter chamber that has an air cooling area over which the filtered air passes to create the cooled air, the condenser unit including: a direct cooling coil filled with a gas over which the filtered air passes, the gas being circulated through a condenser disposed in the external area; an indirect cooling coil filled with cooled water over which the filtered air passes, the cooled air being circulated through an evaporation unit disposed in the external area; an evaporator that provides a water wall through which the filtered air can pass; and an evaporator bypass allowing all or some of the filtered air to bypass the evaporator, and a bypass damper associated therewith; a fan operable push the filtered air through the air cooling area and toward the cool air inlet duct; and an outlet damper operable to control an amount of the cooled air delivered from the air cooling area to the cool air inlet duct.