Design and Implementation of Dew Point Evaporative Cooler: Theoretical and Experimental Investigation

This dissertation presents a comprehensive investigation into the development of a neoteric design for the innovative dew point evaporative cooler (DPEC). The DPEC is a groundbreaking cooling device possessing energy efficiency (i.e., coefficient of performance) higher than 20 that makes it super performing cooling machine when compared to the traditional vapor compression refrigeration systems which have energy efficiency of around 3. The DPEC depends only on the evaporative cooling mechanism of water with innovative air flow arrangement inside its heat and mass exchanger which makes it a complicated irreversible thermodynamic machine. The proposed shell and design for the DPEC offers further enhancement in its performance with aiming to replace the conventional high energy consuming cooling devices.