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Contact Martin
Yoklic at the University of Arizona.
He works at the Environmental Research Laboratory
(ERL) there. His life work
(started in college) has been on passive evaporative ‘Cool Towers.” He has written several papers on this
subject. Frankly speaking, I could
not find a simulation program that would dynamically adjust itself to a varying
load like DOE2 does. He has a
software program which basically says if the ambient wet bulb temperature is “x”,
the wind is “y”, the cross section area of the evaporative media is “a”, the
elevation of the pads is “b”, the cross section area of the tower is “l”, the
exit area is “m”, and given the thickness of the media “q” with a “z” approach,
then you will get “c” flow of “d” degree air. Can’t remember if that is exactly how it
worked, but it is similar to that.
In order for him to perform the calculation, I had to provide him with a
weather file with the variables I outlined above among other static variables. He also has an Architectural degree. Maybe he’ll try to lure you to the
University of Arizona. At least
you’d still be in the PAC 10. (By the way…….Go Huskies!) Eric Kirchhoff, PE Project Engineer Sempra Energy Solutions Phone: (213)
244-4228 Fax: (213)
244-4244 ekirchhoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sempra Energy Solutions is not the same
company as the utility SDG&E or SoCalGas, and Sempra Energy Solutions is
not regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission. -----Original
Message----- Hi all, I am a grad student of Architecture at the Univ of Oregon
and also a new member of this mailing list. I am currently studying the use of
Passive downdraught evaporative cooling in buildings. I wish to use building
energy simulation tools to analyse the performance of different configurations
of the towers. I hope u all can help me with pointers on how I could approach
this problem. Your experiences with simulating evaporative cooling would be
very useful. Which simulation tools accomodate simulating passive evap cooling.
please give me some leads on it. hope to hear replies soon. thanks a ton. Do you
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