Enhancing the performance of evaporative spray cooling in air cycle refrigeration and air conditioning technology

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1139-1148

  Hamlin, S ^a,b   Hunt, R ^a   Tassou, S A ^b  

^a Normalair Garrett Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air cycle technology; Evaporative spray cooling

Indexed keywords

ATOMIZERS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EVAPORATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; REFRIGERATION;

AIR CYCLE REFRIGERATION; EVAPORATIVE SPRAY COOLING;

AIR CONDITIONING;

EID: 0032210573     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-4311(98)00028-3     Document Type: Article

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