Download

Download Full Text (3.2 MB)

Document Type

Book

Description

The purpose of any engineering project is to anticipate a need and meet that need through prediction analysis and design. Over 70% of the nation’s energy is consumed by building infrastructure such as HVAC systems, electrical, etc. HVAC systems use boilers to generate hot water or steam to heat buildings and chillers to provide cold water for cooling. The overall solar evaporative fan coil unit project involves the design and construction of a system that will heat and cool air using a solar collector and an evaporative chiller. This report covers the design and construction of the evaporative chiller specifically. The evaporator harnesses the latent heat of vaporization to chill a fin tube heat exchanger which can then provide chilled water to an air handling device called a fan coil unit. Testing will consider input and output water temperature, relative humidity, as well as input and output air temperature in order to compare the changes and develop a value for efficiency of the system.

Publication Date

Spring 5-26-2015

Rights

For Educational use; no other permissions given. Copyright to this resource is held by the content creator/s and is provided here for educational purposes only. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any format without written permission of the copyright owner. For more information, please contact the Dr. James E. Brooks Library at archive@cwu.edu.

Publisher

Central Washington University

City

Ellensburg, Washington

Keywords

Solar, Evaporator, HVAC

Disciplines

Mechanical Engineering

Language

English

Format

document/pdf

Solar Evaporative Fan Coil Unit
COinS