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Recent researches in indirect evaporative cooler III: optimization of the cooling potential of a room–coupled indirect evaporative cooler
Author(s) -
Tulsidasani T. R.,
Sawhney R. L.,
Singh S. P.,
Sodha M. S.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
international journal of energy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.808
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1099-114X
pISSN - 0363-907X
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-114x(19980625)22:8<741::aid-er400>3.0.co;2-c
Subject(s) - evaporative cooler , environmental science , meteorology , chemistry , thermodynamics , physics
A mathematical model based on heat transfer principles, for characterizing the cooling performance of a room coupled indirect evaporative cooler (tube type) has been developed. Two dimensionless parameters, i.e. environment factor, ϕ and cooling factor, CF have been defined to characterize the performance of IEC coupled with a room. The optimum values of these parameters have been obtained for different environmental and thermal load conditions. In addition to this, a linear relationship has been obtained for the optimum size of a cooler to remove maximum heat from a room of given size. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.