Fogging System: The Warming System

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This chapter includes general information related to the main subject of this project which is a fogging system.
How does the system work?
The working principle of the fog cooling system can be summarized as this system utilizes very high pressure water about 1000 psi or 70 pars which occurred from a pump with high quality and delivery lines to create a very fine droplets size nearly 10 micron from specifically designed nozzles. Then, these fine droplets are quickly evaporated and absorbed the heat found in the air. In order to offer an excellent cooling; fog cooling systems use something called flash evaporation (Giacomelli, 2003).
Fog Evaporative cooling
According to Al-Amri, (2000) evaporative cooling is the chill that the person feels when his skin stroked by a breeze. With the energy of the human body, the water on the skin will be evaporated by the air. By using high-pressure pumps, the water will be forced through the misting nozzles creating tiny water droplets with less than ten microns size. The created water droplets will then absorb the heat (energy) that is existed in the environment quickly and evaporate to become a gas or water vapor. The used heat or energy to change the water from the liquid phase into gas is subtracted from the environment, and then the air will be cooled (Gupta et al., 1995).

Figure 1: fog cooling system (http://www.needeelee.com/about.htm)
Relative humidity
Relative humidity is the moisture amount in the air that is compared with the moisture amount that is can be absorbed by the air at nearly the same temperature, and it considered as a fundamental factor in the determination of cooling potential. The relative humidity with the amount of evaporated water and removed heat ...

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...nto micro-fine droplets that not exceeding 10 microns in size. The size of the droplet is the most significant factor that is controlling the performance of fog systems (Homji and Mee, 2002).
Air-cooled heat exchanger cooling technology
Fog systems can be applied also for cooling heat exchangers with large boosting, air-cooled compressor, and any additional processes that could take advantage from evaporative cooling with large-scale (Smithco, 2005).
Fire Fighting Fogging and mist Systems
Water fogging and mist systems are suitable for fighting various types of fires. It provided with sensors that works only when the temperature of the room is exceeding the natural levels, where these sensors release the water droplets or fogs in the air at high velocity which cools the surrounding area effectively and hence minimize the expected heat related damage (Bre, 2005).

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