SET Proceedings 2978-4387 Caravel Press 10.65582/set.2003.049 2003.049 Direct evaporative cooling with porous ceramics RiffatSaffa Al-KohejiMohamed ZhuJie School of the Built Environment, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK 24102003 2 1 978-1-995850-10-8 217 220 © 2003 Copyright WSSET 2003

A traditional clay ceramic was tested under open atmospheric conditions to investigate its cooling effect as a direct evaporative cooler. A porous ceramic prototype was then manufactured and tested in purpose built laboratory test rig to examine the influence of the physical parameters of the ceramic including porosity and atmospheric conditions such as temperature, humidity, air velocity and solar radiation.

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