Evaportive Cooling Pad System Design 2014

The University of Georgia Department of Poultry Science - Michael Czarick (mczarick@uga.edu)

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Design Conditions:
Tunnel fan capacity (cfm) 180000
Outside temperature (F) 100
Outside relative humidity (%) 20
Pad height (ft) 5.0

System Performance:
4" Pad 6" Pad
Design pad velocity (ft/min) 225 350
Minimimum recommended pad area 800 sq. ft. 514 sq. ft.
Minimum recommended pad length 160 ft. 103 ft.
Pad static pressure 0.05 in 0.05 in
Evaporative cooling efficiency 73% 74%
Wet bulb / pad temperature 70.9 F 70.9 F
Incoming air temperature 78.8 F 78.4 F
Incoming Rh 71 % 72 %
Pad water usage 10.2 gals/min 10.3 gals/min

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Desired total pad length (ft) 160 103

Desired pad height (ft) 5.0 5.0
Total pad area 800 sq. ft. 515 sq. ft.
Pad velocity 225 350
Pad static pressure 0.05 in 0.05 in
Evaporative cooling efficiency 73% 74%
Wet bulb / pad temperature 70.9 F 70.9 F
Incoming air temperature 78.8 F 78.3 F
Incoming Rh 71 % 72 %
Pad water usage 10.2 gals/min 10.3 gals/min

Cooling efficiency 73% 74%

Pad velocity 225 350 225 350
Inside temp 78.80 78.35 78.80 78.35
inside temp c 26.00 25.75 26.00 25.75
Outside temperature 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
Outside relative humidity 20.00 20.00 20.00 20.00
Outside C 38 38 38 38
Outside Rh 20 20 20 20

Wet bulb (F) 70.9 70.9 70.9 70.9

wet bulb C 21.62 21.62 21.62 21.62
ESWB 25.79 25.79 25.79 25.79
ES (inside) 33.54 33.05 33.54 33.04
W 0.02353 0.02364 0.02353 0.02364
Ws 0.033 0.033 0.033 0.033
RH (inside) 71.06 72.45 71.06 72.47
pws outside 65.50 65.50 65.50 65.50
pws inside 33.61 33.12 33.61 33.11
pw outside 13.10 13.10 13.10 13.10
pw inside 23.89 24.00 23.89 24.00
A outside 0.09 0.09 0.09 0.09
A inside 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17
A outside english 0.00710 0.00710 0.00710 0.00710
A inside english 0.01346 0.01354 0.01346 0.01354
Difference 0.0064 0.0064 0.0064 0.0064
gallons per minute 10.17 10.29 10.17 10.29

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