SOLAR OPERATED WATER CUM AIR COOLER

INTRODUCTION

As we know that the war of yesterday was for land, today is for energy and tomorrow is for
water. A country of 1.2 billion needs equipment which is energy efficient. As there is large
scarcity of energy in our country so we as an engineer has the prime duty to make energy
efficient equipment. While thinking in this direction we came to know that water and air cooler
are the basic equipment which are present in almost every household, so we have tried to consist
these two in a single unit, by using this as a single unit we are not only reducing the space
consumption but also reducing the cost factor. When we are using water and air cooler as
separate unit in home, they consume 3 times more electricity as compare to the equipment which
contain them in single unit. This helps in saving cost as well as energy. Now a days, there is
requirement of such domestic equipments which are compact, have less power consumption, less
maintenance and multipurpose objectives. The modified form of cooler is completely in
proportion of above mention requirement.
 Solar system LCD

FAN
Charging TEMPER CONTRO
system ATURE LLER
SENSOR submer
sible
fan

battery

FEATURE
1. It will sense the room temperature and control the cooling system
OBJECTIVE

1. ENERGY EFFICIENT
The water cum air cooler consists of heat exchanger with fins, one drought fan of 50 watt power,
submersible fan of 1.5m head instead of compressor. As compressor consume more power than
the heat exchanger with fins, by using heat exchanger with is to increase the rate of heat transfer.

2. COST EFFICIENT
We made the market search and find that if one person wants to buy the water cooler as well as
desert cooler he has to pay at least ten thousand rupees. As in this project we are providing both
water and desert cooler in one unit and this is easy to transform from one place to other. When
we have completed the project we find that money spend for buying the equipments for this
project is forty five hundred rupees, from above we can see that water and air cooler reduce the
cost by more than 50%. This project helps in saving the energy as well as cost. This idea is
greatly helpful to the middle class family and poorer family.

PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION

A water-cum air cooler works on principle of heat loss during evaporation process, resulting in
cooled air. Evaporation process occurs when water and air comes into contact with each other.
Best example of this process is in summer season we feel cool when we stand near to fan this is
because the sweat vaporize. The process is known as latent heat of vaporization. Latent heat of
vaporization is the amount of heat required to convert unit mass of liquid into vapor. Water and
air are the two fluids between which evaporation process takes place, actually one end of
condenser is attached to the fresh water tank which has little higher temperature than the water
sprayed over the condenser, when fresh water passes over the hollow pipes of heat exchanger
with fins the heat is transfer from the fresh water spread by the sprayer and mixture of air
and vapor is delivered by the duct.

HOW EVAPORATION TAKES PLACE.................................?

Evaporative air cooling is a naturally occurring phenomenon. When air and water come into
contact the water evaporates into the surrounding air, reducing its temperature. This is why on a
hot day it is cooler near a lake, waterfall of fountain.
CONSTRUCTION
We want to produce cooling in a room of 10' 12' we came to know that a desert cooler of
capacity of can be able to produce cooling by decreasing the temperature. As we know in Indian
household on an average four members are present and each consume 1.5 liter of water so in a
day they will consume 6 liter of water. As whole of 6 liter is not consumed in one time but in
intervals, so we want to have capacity of tank in which cooled water stored is up to 1.5 liter for
that purpose we use heat exchanger which has coils with fins and which can store water up to 1.5
liter.

IT CONSISTS OF FOLLOWING PARTS

1.TANK
It is made up of mild steel of 1.5mm thickness. It is used for the purpose of
storing water which has to be sprayed over the heat exchanger by lifting it with the help of
submersible pump, this water is fed to sprinkler. The sprinkler sprays the water on heat
exchanger and cycle goes on repeating.

2. SUBMERSIBLE PUMP
Submersible pumps is attached to he tank, it has 1.5m head. It is used to lift the water from the
tank and fed to the sprinkler. It has capacity of

3. HEAT EXCHANGER
Heat exchanger is a device which transfers the energy from hot fluid to cold fluid, with
maximum rate and minimum investment and running costs. In heat exchanger the temperature of
each fluid changes as it passes through exchanger. In the project we are using heat exchanger
with fins, the property of fins is to increase the heat transfer rate, by the use of fins, surface area
is increased due to which heat flow rate increases. Increase in surface area decreases the surface
convention resistance, whereas the conduction resistance increases. The decrease in convention
resistance is much greater than the increase in conduction resistance in order to increase the rate
of heat transfer from the surface. Fins used are rectangular in shape.

EFFECTIVENESS OF FIN
It is the ratio of heat transfer rate to the heat transfer rate that would exist without of fin. From
the experiment we find that heat transfer rate with fins are 26% more than the ordinary heat
exchanger.
4. KHAS-KHAS- GRASS
The air which drought fan sucks from atmosphere is cooled by this grass which has property to
absorb water. It helps to increase the efficiency of unit by providing the inlet air at the
temperature already lower than the ambient temperature. This air will further cooled inside the
unit. This Khas-Khas grass is attached to the four sides of the cooler.

5. DROUGHT FAN
This fan is attached to the topmost part of the cooler. Fan is of 12" and it has rpm of 1440. This
fan helps in evaporation process and duct is placed over the fan which helps to provide mixture
of air and water vapour so the person around the range of cooler feels cools air.

WORKING

Heat exchanger with fins on the upper surface has inlet for fresh water and outlet for cool water.
The inlet water has temperature slightly more than that of the water spread over the heat
exchanger. The submersible pump lifts the water from the tank and feed it to sprinkler, sprinkler
sprays the droplets of water over the heat exchanger, and thus the transfer of heat occurs. As we
know that heat is always transferred from high to low temperature and the water spread over the
heat exchanger is at low temperature, thus the inlet water while passing through the heat
exchanger gives heat to the water outside the heat exchanger coil and we get the cold water from
outlet of heat-exchanger. The water over the coils of heat exchanger when the water over the
coils of heat exchanger when comes in contact with nair, the evaporation of water takes place
thus the drought fan sucks the mixture of water vapors and air and it provide this mixture to the
surrounding with help of duct. Duct is made curved at the bending section, this is done to avoid
back pressure and to deliver the maximum cold air.

Adiabatic efficiency of water cum air cooler

Ambient temp.:-
Dry bulb temp. (DBT) = 25°c
Wet bulb temp. (WBT) = 23°c
Conditioned air:-
Dry bulb temp. (DBT) = 20°c
Wet bulb temp. (WBT) = 16°c
= 25°c - 20°c 100
23°c -16°c
= 5 100 = 0.71 100
7
= 71%
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n=DBT (AMB) - DB conditioned air *100
 WBT (AMB) - WBT conditioned air

BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER BY RAJPUT, R.K.
2. ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS BY NAG, P.K.
3. FROM WEBSITE www.wilipedia.com
www.mechprojects.com
www.innovation.com