First, a
system for providing liquid
refrigerant subcooling, subsequent to that
subcooling accomplished by the primary condenser of an air conditioner,
refrigeration or
heat pump system, by means of evaporative cooling utilizing the condensate water of said air conditioner,
refrigeration or
heat pump system and / or some other
water supply to wet the surface of the subcool
heat exchanger and then passing the cold, dry building exhaust air required for good
indoor air quality (or outside air) across the wetted surface of the subcool
heat exchanger or by using building exhaust air only to conductively subcool. Said exhaust air could be used after first undergoing a
sensible heat exchange with the incoming make up air. Said
subcooling providing for an increased
refrigeration capacity and efficiency of the system. Secondly, a system for providing hot gas
discharge refrigerant precooling before said hot gas passes into the primary condenser of an air conditioner, refrigeration or
heat pump system, by means of evaporative cooling utilizing the condensate water of said air conditioner, refrigeration or heat pump system and / or some other
water supply to wet the surface of the precool
heat exchanger and then passing the cold, dry building exhaust air required for good
indoor air quality(or outdoor air) across the wetted surface of the precool heat exchanger. Said precooler providing lower
power consumption of the compressor, lower head pressure, increased
mass flow of the
refrigerant and improved efficiency of the primary condenser of the
air conditioning, refrigeration or heat pump system. A combination subcooler and precooler system where the cold dry building exhaust air (or outdoor air) is first used to evaporatively subcool the liquid refrigerant in the water wetted (or dry) subcooler and then subsequently used to conductively cool the hot gas refrigerant passing through a dry surface precooler or alternately used to evaporatively cool the wetted surface of the precooler thereby evaporatively precooling the hot gas refrigerant passing through the precooler. Also, a system for providing suction gas postheating after the primary
evaporator but before the refrigerant is drawn back into the compressor of a heat pump operating in the heating mode, by passing relatively warm building exhaust air through a postheat heat exchanger thereby adding normally wasted heat back into the heat pump system. Finally, a combination subcooler and postheater system whereby building exhaust air(or outdoor air) is first used to conductively subcool the liquid refrigerant and then the subcooler warmed building exhaust air (or outdoor air) is subsequently used to conductively warm the refrigerant passing through the postheater thereby adding normally wasted heat back into a heat pump system operating in the heating mode.