Evaporative Cooling Tower Architecture

When warm dry unsaturated air is pulled through a water soaked pad water is evaporated and is absorbed as water vapor into the air.

Evaporative cooling tower architecture.

Mert carpenter photography the pavilion at laurel village 4240 architecture colorado state university fort collins colorado united states credit. They are the most economical approach to cool large amounts of water. During the day the walls serve to keep the temperature lower in presence of wind this process is. Principles of evaporative cooling system a.

During the night the tower walls absorb heat from the air contained in the tower and the denser cooled air goes down inside the building. An evaporative cooling tower provides cooling based on a design wet bulb temperature. Due to this fact the fountain is used in both the traditional and the contemporary islamic architecture as a passive cooling system or part of a complex passive cooling system such as in the middle of a courtyard house in the exit air from a wind tower or located in an air stream passage inside a living room as shown in fig. Cooling is provided whilst keeping the evaporative process outside which avoids elevating the indoor humidity level.

The air is cooled. A building looking to achieve credits for optimizing energy performance can get about halfway to certification by implementing hvac. Evaporative cooling towers typically cool water to approximately 85 f but may cool as low as 65 f. When evaporative processes are used to cool an element of the building which then acts as a heat sink this is known as indirect evaporative cooling.

Astula 4240 architecture. Evaporative cooling towers global ecology center carnegie institution for science ehdd 260 panama street stanford california united states credit. An evaporative cooling tower system capable of achieving these goals has the potential to earn points toward energy optimization credit including up to 20 in existing buildings and up to 18 in new buildings. Evaporative cooling is achieved by an adiabatic process in which the sensible air temperature is reduced and compensated by latent heat gain.

Manuel correia guedes in sustainability energy and architecture 2013.