TY - JOUR A1 - López Núñez, Javier AU - Sánchez Fernández, Francisco AU - Arocas Máiquez, Iván AU - Viedma Robles, Antonio AU - Zamora Parra, Blas AU - Martínez Martínez, Pedro AU - Lucas Miralles, Manuel AU - Ruiz Ramírez, Javier AU - Hernández Jiménez, Mónica AU - Sánchez Kaiser, Antonio T1 - Study of the performance of an adiabatic cooling pad in an air cooling system Y1 - 2016 SN - 2172-038 X UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10317/8355 AB - Adiabatic cooling pads are mostly used as a previous step for cooling systems, they cause the raise of the cooling system global efficiency. In this study, several types of pads have been analysed regarding on its compactness and thickness. The problem is addressed from an experimental, analytical and numerical point of view.vThe validation of the temperature drop and cooling efficiency of the cooling pad numerical model is the main objective of this paper, and, in order to get this goal, Discrete Phase Model (DPM) of ANSYS Fluent software is used to calculate how water droplets, injected over the pad to cool the air, evaporate and how the continuous phase affect them. The results of this paper, focused to be a part of a complete cooling system analysis carried out by the research group, show the performance of an adiabatic cooling pad varying its width and compactness. KW - Mecánica de Fluidos KW - Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) KW - Evaporation KW - Experimental KW - Analytics KW - Discrete Phase Model (DPM) KW - 2205.04 Mecánica de Fluidos LA - eng PB - European Association for the Development of Renewable Energies, Environment and Power Quality ER -