Abstract
Spraying water in air improves air-cooling capacity, which then relies on the evaporation of water. Even for small drop sizes, literature reports that the evaporation remains limited inside the spray and below saturation limits. In this article, we describe the evolution of thermodynamic quantities in a mixture of air and evaporating liquid water. A complete and coherent formulation is used to express enthalpy, entropy and chemical potential. At constant enthalpy, we show that the chemical equilibrium corresponds to an intermediate state in which droplet evaporation is not complete and entropy is maximum under certain conditions. Results are compared with some experimental values measured in a wind tunnel downstream of a spray. The calculated values are consistent with observations. Cooling efficiency is discussed for the various parameters, which are the amount of water, air temperature and ambient humidity. Then, the numerical approach is inverted in order to forecast the amount of water needed to reach a target cooling temperature. This numerical approach is used to set water flow depending on inlet flow conditions and cooling objectives.
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