Experimental Study on the Thermal Performances of a Tube-Type Indirect Evaporative Cooler

The so-called indirect evaporative cooling technology is widely used in air conditioning applications.The thermal characterization of tube-type indirect evaporative coolers,however,still presents challenges which need to be addressed to make this technology more reliable and easy to implement.This experimental study deals with the performances of a tube-type indirect evaporative cooler based on an aluminum tube with a 10 mm diameter.In particular,the required tests were carried out considering a range of dry-bulb temperatures between 16℃ and 18℃ and a temperature difference between the wet-bulb and dry-bulb temperature of 2℃∼4℃.The integrated convective heat transfer coefficient inside the tube in the drenching condition has been found to lie in the range between 36.10 and 437.4(W/(m^(2)⋅K)).

Design calculation of porous ceramics tube type dew point indirect evaporative cooler

To improve the wall surface hydrophilicity of a tube type indirect evaporative cooler,a new method adopting porous ceramics is proposed.This method realizes the combination of porous ceramics and the evaporative cooling technique.The design calculation of the porous ceramics tube type dew point indirect evaporative cooler are carried out from such aspects as the volumes and status parameters of the primary and secondary air,the cooler structure,the heat transfer of the solid porous ceramic tubes and the resistance of the cooler.The calculation results show that the design is reasonable.Finally,based on the design calculation,the porous ceramics tube type dew point indirect evaporative cooler is successfully manufactured.

A Simplified Model for Analysis of Heat and Mass Transfer in an Indirect Evaporative Cooler

A simplified model for analysis of heat and mass transfer between air stream and flowing down water film in counter-flow plate heat exchanger which serves as an indirect evaporative cooler is theoretically analyzed in this paper. Indirect evaporative cooler is used for sensible cooling of air which then is used for air conditioning purposes. Mathematical model was developed allowing determining heat transfer surface, outlet air temperature and specific humidity of the air being cooled. To make the model simpler some simplifications have been incorporated. The model has high level of correctness and can be used to calculate and design different types of evaporative heat exchangers. Analysis of results of calculations by the help of the developed model prove that the surface of heat exchanger depends on the thickness of water film layer by the regularity of direct proportionality. Moreover, increasing of the water film thickness brings to the decreasing of the efficiency of evaporative type heat exchanger. The model can be used for correct calculation and design of an evaporative cooling air conditioning systems.

Case Study of Indirect Adiabatic Cooling System in Historical Building

The objective of the present study is to investigate the efficiency of indirect adiabatic chiller-based cooling system efficiency dependence of outdoor air humidity. The system is located in historical building, in temperate climate of Latvia. The data about electricity consumption, water consumption, chiller operation stages, cooling average temperatures and outdoor air parameters have been acquired for the period of 2.5 month, during the cooling season. Using data collected by BACnet based BMS controllers and adiabatic chiller control system, we have analyzed operation efficiency of the chiller and its dependence of outdoor air humidity. Data range for the period from August 1st till October 13th, 2011 was taken for deeper analysis, which showed that in temperature range 22.0 ± 0.5 ℃ for the studied period of time chiller＇s COP is slightly dependent on the outdoor air moisture.

Numerical Study and Optimization of a Combined Thermoelectric Assisted Indirect Evaporative Cooling System

This paper numerically investigates the performance of a novel combined cross-regenerative cross flow(C-RC)thermoelectric assisted indirect evaporative cooling(TIEC)system.This C-RC TIEC system combines the indirect evaporative cooling and thermoelectric cooling technologies.A heat and mass transfer model is developed to perform the performance analysis and optimization of this novel system.Performance comparison between the novel C-RC TIEC system and a regenerative cross flow TIEC system is conducted under various operating conditions.It is found that the novel system provides better performance with higher coefficient of performance(C O P)and higher dew point effectiveness than the regenerative cross flow TIEC system,especially under smaller working current and smaller number of thermoelectric cooling modules.The performance optimization of the novel system is also made by investigating the influences of primary air parameters,three different mass flow rate ratios,as well as the length ratio of the left wet channel to the whole wet channel.The results show that there exist optimal mass flow rate ratios and wet channel length ratio resulting in the maximum C O P.

Heat and mass transfer model optimization and annual energy efficiency analysis for energy recovery indirect evaporative cooling

Indirect evaporative cooling(IEC)is a kind of high efficiency,energy-saving and environmental protection cooling technology,which has been widely used in data centers and other fields in recent years.In this paper,the optimized two-dimensional non-condensation state model of indirect evaporative cooling was proposed.Meanwhile the computer program was updated to solve the developed mathematical model under variable fresh air conditions.The optimized model was verified by the experimental data,and the maximum deviation was only 4.6%.Based on the modified model and the annual hourly meteorological parameters in Tianjin,China,it was analyzed the optimal heat transfer area of IEC used as fresh air pre-cooling unit under various air volumes to provide references for system design and equipment selection.Finally,taking an IEC-primary return air conditioning system of a gymnasium as an example,the hourly energy-saving effect of whole year was simulated by the developed IEC model.The simulation results showed that IEC could control the fresh air temperature below 27℃ and the moisture content below 18 g/kg throughout the year,and undertook 102.6% of the total fresh air cooling load.The findings are useful in future system optimization and design of IEC equipment.

Performance analysis and optimization of free cooling strategies for a liquid-cooled data center

The increasing power density of IT electronics and the enormous energy consumption of data centers lead to the urgent demand for efficient cooling technology.Due to its efficiency and safety,liquid-cooled heat sink technology may gradually replace air-cooled technology over time.With the ambient or higher water supply temperature,the liquid-cooled technology shortens the operating time of the chiller and improves its coefficient of performance,while the pump power consumption may increase for satisfying the constant cooling capacity.Therefore,it is significant to study the optimal water supply temperature to achieve energy-efficient operation of data centers.A virtual 30.1 kW data center is considered as the case,the liquid-cooled system is constructed with a combination of innovative manifold microchannel heat sink with oblique fins and indirect evaporative cooling technology to minimize energy consumption.A hybrid thermal management model integrating the heat dissipation model and the power consumption model is established by TRNSYS and FLUENT software.To the highest chip-safe operating temperature premise,the energy performance is analyzed under various water supply temperatures in Guangzhou.The result shows that only 21.5-hour mechanical cooling is needed with the 30℃server inlet temperature throughout the year.And the minimized power consumption occurs with the constant 29℃server inlet temperature.Moreover,the temperature adaptive control strategy(TACS)is adopted to test the cooling system power consumption under different regulation frequencies,and the by-week TACS can achieve another 11.5%energy saving than the minimum power consumption of the constant temperature control strategy.