Evaporative Cooling

Water needs quite a lot of energy, to get converted to vapour, called latent heat of vapourisation .
And this phenomenon is what keeps life going on earth. And, surprisingly, evaporation takes place at
all temperatures, and not exactly at 100 C .

It is a common observation, during summer that water drawn from a covered overhead tank,
remains tepid, while the same water, if kept in a bucket for a few minutes gets comfortably cool, for
a bath. It is due to natural evaporation that draws heat energy from the tepid water, and makes it
cool. Taking the logic further deep, if tepid water is kept shallow, and with a large surface area, and
kept in shade, without access to direct sun, it gets cooler .

Cold water is denser than hot water and vice versa . Using these natural phenomena, it is possible to
cool a room, without the necessity of any extra power or electricity ,

If a shaded and shallow pool of water of say, 200 mm depth is created on the roof of a single or
double story building, the temperature of that water would be near wet bulb , and the difference
between the dry bulb temperature and this pool of water, would be considerable, if the humidity is
lower in the atmosphere. If a pipe connection is made from the bottom of the pool to the bottom of
a hollow panel, placed vertically in a room below, against a wall, and the top portion of such panel
connected to the top level of the roof top pool, a thermo-siphon is created, where the cool water
flows down, and relatively warm water , with the collected heat from the room, goes up, into the
pool, and the cycle continues, as long as the room temperature is higher than the pool temperature .
Not much floor space is occupied, since the panel is placed vertical and touching the wall.

This temperature differential would be considerable when the sun is up. A comfortable ambience is
created, in the rooms, WITHOUT using any extraneous power source, using well known, natural
physical processes.

And, for this purpose, what better material could be, than SS 304, or if you consider the chlorides, in
municipal water due to chlorination, SS 316 !

If the panel design is right, by using very thin, even say 0.6mm thickness sheets, a rigid structure
could be created, with in-built random distribution of water, to assist heat transfer to create
comfort, with no recurring expence, except for make up water for loss through evaporation .
Running expences would be nil . No valves to be operated, no pump, no motor. Add a little Algicide
to the water once in a way. That’s all ,

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