DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND FABRICATION OF A MIST SPRAY DIRECT EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEM AND ITS PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

Abstract

In today's essential commodities, air conditioning system is one of the major energy consuming elements. Nowadays evaporative cooling systems are mostly preferred as an alternative to compressor-based air conditioned systems. It is reported that evaporative cooling systems consume 60 - 70 % less energy compared to compressor-based air conditioning systems. In this paper, performance analysis of a mist evaporative cooler is carried out experimentally. The performance parameters such as, drop in temperature, cooling capacity, saturation efficiency, the coefficient of performance are evaluated with respect to various ambient conditions and with a varied mass flow rate of air. Experimental data used to develop an empirical correlation to predict the temperature of cooled air by linear regression analysis. Predicted temperature of cooled air temperature by empirical correlation is validated through experimentation, and are good in agreement with experimental values.

Keywords

• Mist Nozzle,Evaporative Cooling,Spinning Disc Atomization

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