Comparison between evaporative cooling and a heat pipe assisted thermal loop for a commercial wind tower in hot and dry climatic conditions

Applied Energy

Volumn 101, Issue , 2013, Pages 740-755

  Calautit, John Kaiser ^a   Chaudhry, Hassam Nasarullah ^a   Hughes, Ben Richard ^a   Ghani, Saud Abdul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b QATAR UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

Author keywords

CFD; Evaporative cooling; Multiphase; Transient; Volume fraction; Wind tower

Indexed keywords

AIR; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ETHANOL; EVAPORATION; EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; HEAT PIPES; MULTIPHASE FLOW; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; TRANSIENTS; VENTILATION; VOLUME FRACTION;

AIR FLOW; AIR TEMPERATURE; AIRFLOW PATTERNS; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CONTACT TIME; CONTROL DOMAINS; EVAPORATIVE COOLING; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; IN-BUILDINGS; IP PROTECTION; MULTIPHASE; NATURAL VENTILATION; OPERATING CONDITION; PUBLIC AWARENESS; REDUCING ENERGY CONSUMPTION; WIND TOWERS; WORKING FLUID;

TOWERS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIRFLOW; BUILDING; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLING; DESIGN METHOD; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ETHANOL; EVAPORATION; FLOW PATTERN; HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIPE; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; VENTILATION; WATER; WIND FIELD;

EID: 84869871135     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2012.07.034     Document Type: Article

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