Natural air conditioning with the Earth, Wind & Fire concept
presents opportunities for office buildings. The core of the climate
system is the Climate Cascade© which is designed as an architectural
shaft and performs as a gravity-activated heat exchanger for
conditioning
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Natural air conditioning with the Earth, Wind & Fire concept
presents opportunities for office buildings. The core of the climate
system is the Climate Cascade© which is designed as an architectural
shaft and performs as a gravity-activated heat exchanger for
conditioning the ventilation air. Ventilation air is being cooled or
heated, dried or humidified as needed, by means of sprayed water
droplets at the top of the shaft by full cone spray nozzles. The droplet
size distribution applied here is not fine, as no cooling due to
evaporation like for adiabatic cooling is required; instead the heat
exchange is due to the inert heating of large amounts of cool, quite
coarse water droplets of approximately 13 °C in summer and winter
conditions. By momentum transfer from droplets to air, the downward air
movement from the over pressure room is enhanced. This aerodynamic
pressure, together with the hydraulic pressure and the downward thermal
draft, reduces the need for fans. After successful testing in small
scale the concept will be installed in a new hotel building in
Amsterdam. This CFD study will explain the effect of the evaporation and
condensation of a cool droplet spray computed with the Lagrangian
discrete phase model. The model considered both evaporation and
condensation at the same location and the computed temperature and
relative humidity showed good agreement with the measured test results.
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