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Evaporative cooling

Evaporative Cooling
Tower

Heat exchanges between water and air

Sensible heat is exchanged for latent
heat

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Submitted to
Dr. Vashimant Sharma

Direct contact or indirect contact

Usually both the air and water are
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cooled

Presented by

Evaporative Cooling method

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Jagdish P. Lovevanshi

Mist spray
Not recommend for most
Requires a very long drop
Good for no wind places

Mist spray
Wetted column
Wetted surface
Swivel scoop

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Mist spray

Wetted Columns
Ceramic conduits stacked lengthwise on top of one
another of thick dampers

Water uniformly sprayed on surface of column

Excessive water collected in sump

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Wetted Columns
Wetted Surfaces
Where wind speed is low
Surface of wind tower consist of series of straws or
cellulose pads same as evaporative coolers

Pads placed at the apertures on the top of the wind

tower

Kept wet by spraying water

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Wetted Surfaces
Swivel Scoop
Scoop made of light aluminium
Create a larger air flow
Have a venturi system (tail) to keep the scoop
oriented into the wind

Exhaust vents also swivel with a venturi system

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BahadoriMN.Apassivecooling/heatingsystemforhot,aridregions.In:13th National
passivesolarconference,MIT,Cambridge,MA;June2024 1988.p. 364367.

Swivel Scoop

Performance

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Inlet air temperature and relative humidity

Droplet size
Air mass flow rate
Particle temperature

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Limitation

Green Buildings
CII Godrej GBC, Hyderabad
Hyderabad Institute of Technology and

Can not used in humid climate

Strong climatic dependency
Insufficient cooling capacity

Management

Huge water consumption

Infosys BPO, Jaipur

Inspector General Of Police (IGP) Complex,

Difficulty in control
Possibility of introduction of pollutants or insects

Gulbarga

Increased moisture content

High evaporation may result in discomfort due to high humidity
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Layout plan

Inspector General Of Police (IGP)

Complex, Gulbarga
Karnataka, Hot and dry

External walls (1.53 W/m2-K)

Outer side granite blocks
Inner side rat-trap bond brick walls

Roof-filler slab(2.15 W/m2-K)

Rectangular with the longer axis along the northsouth direction

Most windows face east or west

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Monthly prediction of the temperature of air

exiting the PDEC tower
Givonis model

Comparison of measured and predicted

temperature of air exiting PDEC
Tower in September 2005
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Cost analysis

Area 30000 sq. ft.

Cost of PDEC system = Rs. 17,50,000
Estimated savings per annum = Rs. 3,52,000
Simple payback period = 5 years (approximately), If
air-conditioned building maintained at 27.5 C

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