Published Paper Details:

A Direct evaporative cooling system cannot cool air below wet bulb temperature, while indirect evaporative system is not much efficient in producing required temperature drop for its given size and usually works on two different fluids. The maisotsenko cycle combines both evaporative cooling and Indirect evaporative cooling in same system and gives higher COP. Maisotsenko cycle can cool beyond wet bulb temperatures, the theoretical limit being the dew point. The crossflow recuperator bleeds the product air into wet channels and exhausts it after addition of moisture by evaporation of water absorbing latent heat, thus imparting cooling effect to dry channel air for usage without additional humidity. The paper aims to develop a low power air cooler that runs on the same Maisotsenko cycle. Along with reduction in power consumption, cost reduction was also an aimed for and hence the cooler is made from easily available materials, Photo paper is used for the Heat and mass exchanger unlike other costly materials that are usually preferred.