Air Diffusing Mist Nozzle Layout for Dry Evaporative Cooling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing air and water misting systems lack control over the water stream and placement of components, often resulting in unintended wetting of occupants in residential or commercial settings.
Innovation Solution
The apparatus features a body portion with a nozzle and deflectors, a movable inner portion, and a support mechanism, along with a pump mechanism for high-pressure water delivery, allowing for controlled dispersion of a diffused water stream into the air for cooling purposes, with options for linear or non-linear flow configurations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Temperature
If water is forced through a high-pressure pump and tubing through a nozzle with a narrow orifice to create an exceptionally fine mist, then the cooling effect is rapid and dramatic, but the system lacks control over the water stream and placement of components, resulting in unintended wetting of occupants
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the dynamics principle by making the inner body portion movable within the outer body portion, allowing the nozzle to be repositioned dynamically. This enables control over the direction and placement of the water mist stream, preventing unintended wetting of occupants while maintaining the high-pressure fine mist configuration for effective cooling.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the apparatus into an outer body portion and an inner body portion that can move independently. The nozzle is associated with the inner body portion, allowing it to be repositioned relative to the outer housing. This segmentation provides control over water stream direction while maintaining system integrity.
2Ease of operation
If a movable inner body portion is introduced to enable control over nozzle placement, then control over water stream direction is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The movable inner body portion within the outer body portion creates a dynamic structure that allows nozzle repositioning. This dynamic configuration enables control over water stream direction without requiring complex external mechanisms, as the movement is integrated within the apparatus itself.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The system effectively reduces ambient temperature by up to 20 degrees while keeping surfaces and people cool and dry, using a fraction of the water of typical systems and incorporating a high-velocity air delivery for efficient evaporative cooling.
Implementation Method 1
Evaporative cooling involves the evaporation of a liquid, often in the surrounding air, cooling the surrounding air and thereby the environment in which the liquid has evaporated
Implementation Method 2
water forced through a high-pressure pump and tubing through a nozzle with a narrow orifice
Implementation Method 3
The mist contains water droplets so small that they may flash evaporate, absorbing the heat from the air, and reducing the surrounding air temperature rapidly and dramatically
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus, system, and method for providing a non-linear fluid stream into an environment for cooling purposes are disclosed. Such an apparatus includes a body portion and a nozzle, the nozzle being adapted to direct water into the environment. Such an apparatus may include a body portion having a flow channel defined therein for gas flow therethrough; and, a nozzle operatively disposed within the flow channel; said nozzle adapted to direct a liquid therefrom; wherein the channel and the nozzle are operatively disposed relative to each other so that a gas flowing through the channel and the liquid are combined into a fluid stream directed from the apparatus into the surrounding environment.