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Experimental Study of the Circulation Air Volume of Recirculation Evaporative Cooling
Abstract
This paper introduces the technology of re-circulation evaporative cooling (REC), which uses a portion of supply air as secondary air to make cool water used to indirectly cool outside air through a heat exchanger. The circulation volume of secondary air is one of the main factors that have an impact on the effectiveness of REC. According to the technology, a set of apparatus was set up. The cooling effect was tested under different circulation volumes of secondary air in summer. The test results show that the cooling effec-tiveness rapidly increases and then levels off with the increase of the ratio of circulation volume. We con-clude that there is a proper range of the circulation volume.
Subject
Re-circulation evaporative coolingeffectiveness
Experimental study
Circulation air volume
Evaporative cooling
Citation
Xiong, J.; Liu, Z.; Wang, C.; Chen, G. (2006). Experimental Study of the Circulation Air Volume of Recirculation Evaporative Cooling. Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu). Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /5271.