LAPSE:2019.1593
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LAPSE:2019.1593
Experimental and Numerical Analysis of a Sustainable Farming Compartment with Evaporative Cooling System
M. Sina Mousavi, Siamak Mirfendereski, Jae Sung Park, Jongwan Eun
December 13, 2019
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) relies on groundwater as well as desalinated water which are very expensive and energy-concentrated. Despite the lack of water resources, only 54% of wastewater was recycled in the UAE in 2016. In this study, a Sustainable Farming Compartment (SFC) with an evaporative cooling system is investigated as an alternative to reusing wastewater and the optimal design is identified experimentally and numerically. First, the applicability of the SFC was examined to reduce the ambient temperature in the system. A prototype SFC was tested in the environmentally constrained laboratory and field site considering an extreme climate condition (with high temperature and humidity) in Abu Dhabi to evaluate the temperature drop and humidity change of the SFC. The experimental results showed that the temperature of the SFC significantly decreases by 7−15 °C when the initial relative humidity is 50%. For validation, an energy modeling using dynamic numerical simulations was performed that shows statistically good agreement with the experimental results. Based on the parametric studies of the system components, the optimal cooling performance of the system in terms of locations of inlet and outlet, the variation of Reynolds number was evaluated. The study suggested an optimized design for the SFC with an evaporative cooling system.
Keywords
dynamic numerical simulation, evaporative cooling system, heat transport, humidity, optimized design, temperature, water recycling
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Mousavi MS, Mirfendereski S, Park JS, Eun J. Experimental and Numerical Analysis of a Sustainable Farming Compartment with Evaporative Cooling System. (2019). LAPSE:2019.1593
Author Affiliations
Mousavi MS: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Omaha, NE 68588-0531, USA
Mirfendereski S: Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0526, USA [ORCID]
Park JS: Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0526, USA [ORCID]
Eun J: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Omaha, NE 68588-0531, USA
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Processes
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7
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11
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E823
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2019
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2019-11-06
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2227-9717
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