Document Type

Conference Paper

Rights

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

Environmental sciences, Meteorology and atmospheric sciences, Climatic research, Civil engineering, Architecture engineering, Thermodynamics, Chemical process engineering, Energy and fuels, Occupational health

Publication Details

PALENC Conference 2005 (Passive and Low Energy Cooling for the Built Environment) Santorini Greece.

Abstract

Recent developments in enhancing heat transfer in cooling towers, together with the success of chilled ceilings, have prompted a review of the evaporative cooling technique. in temperate maritime climates. The thermal efficiency of such systems is a key parameter, as a measure of the degree to which the system has succeeded in exploiting the cooling potential of the ambient air. This paper presents the results of experimental research into the thermal efficiency of a water-side open indirect evaporative cooling test rig designed to achieve low (1-4 K) approach conditions. Secondary efficiencies in the range 0.24-0.76 have been achieved.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21427/D7NW36

Funder

CIBSE (RoI region), Enterprise Ireland applied research grant, DIT Faculty of Engineering research seed fund


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