Indirect evaporative cooler with condensation of primary airflow
- Inst. of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering, Wageningen (Netherlands)
In this paper a new application for indirect evaporative cooling is introduced. This cooling principle may be used to cool and dehumidify closed greenhouses. A prototype indirect evaporative cooler with a crossflow configuration was built and its performance was determined in an experimental facility. During tests under Dutch design conditions of the greenhouse and outside air, the plate temperature was less than the dew point of the greenhouse air, so condensation occurred. The rates of sensible and latent heat transferred from the greenhouse air by the prototype cooler were determined. Also, the influence of greenhouse and outside air conditions and airflow rates in the cooler on the enthalpy efficiency was studied. Although the amount of condensation in the prototype indirect evaporative cooler was large, the resulting climate in a closed greenhouse may be more humid than that in a conventional one.
- OSTI ID:
- 33260
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9406105-; TRN: IM9518%%81
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 1994 American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) annual meeting, Orlando, FL (United States), 25-29 Jun 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of ASHRAE transactions 1994: Technical and symposium papers. Volume 100, Part 2; PB: 1372 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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