Green Practices Of Air Conditioning For Major Capital Cities Of India Using Advanced Evaporative Cooling

Abstract

Abstract--In the present era of energy crisis, effective and energy efficient air conditioning is a need of time. Advanced evaporative cooling is able to replace conventional air conditioning. This paper identifies the major cities of India and investigates scope and potential of evaporative cooling over entire period of year using feasibility index method. Initially paper describes basic and advanced methods of evaporative cooling with the mechanism of cooling and its representation on psychometric chart. It is found that evaporative cooling is promising alternative for Delhi, Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Bangalore for 9, 7, 7 and 8 months of the year respectively. The temperature achieved are in range of 12 ºC to 27 ºC for Delhi,14 ºC to 27 ºC for Jaipur ,17 ºC to 27 ºC for Ahmadabad and 16 ºC to 22 ºC for Bangalore. The paper concludes that evaporative cooling has great potential of replacing conventional air conditioning and still providing better quality of air resulting environmental friendly energy efficient cooling practice there by reducing energy burden in these cities.