Study of the performance of an adiabatic cooling pad in an air cooling system

  1. J. López
  2. F. Sánchez
  3. I. Arocas
  4. A. Viedma
  5. B. Zamora
  6. P. Martínez
  7. M. Lucas
  8. J. Ruiz
  9. M. Hernández
  10. A. S. Káiser
Actas:
International Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Quality (ICREPQ’16): Madrid, del 4 al 6 de mayo de 2016

Año de publicación: 2016

Tipo: Aportación congreso

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Resumen

Adiabatic cooling pads are mostly used as aprevious step for cooling systems, they cause the raise of thecooling system global efficiency. In this study, several types ofpads have been analysed regarding on its compactness andthickness. The problem is addressed from an experimental,analytical and numerical point of view..The validation of the temperature drop and cooling efficiency ofthe cooling pad numerical model is the main objective of thispaper, and, in order to get this goal, Discrete Phase Model (DPM)of ANSYS Fluent software is used to calculate how water droplets,injected over the pad to cool the air, evaporate and how thecontinuous phase affect them.The results of this paper, focused to be a part of a complete coolingsystem analysis carried out by the research group, show theperformance of an adiabatic cooling pad varying its width andcompactness.