Energy Savings
One of the major benefits of evaporative cooling is the reduction (or elimination) of refrigeration compressor horsepower required to condition outside air. In applications where conditioned outside air is required for ventilation operating costs can be reduced by as much as 80% .Often this can be achieved simply and economically with the addition of an evaporative wet section on the fresh air intake of an existing air handling or ventilation system utilizing fans or blowers already in place.

In a situation where a 10,000 CFM supply air stream needed to be taken from 90 degrees F. and 25% R.H. to 67.5 degrees F. it would require roughly 25 compressor horsepower using conventional refrigeration air conditioning. The power required to achieve that same 22.5 degree drop through a MegEvap™ evaporative wet section is 1/6 horsepower. It’s easy to see how fast savings can accumulate. Evaporative cooling is a very attractive alternative to air conditioning in many applications, it’s low cost of operation and maintenance even make it possible to condition areas thought to be too expensive or too large to cool in the past. Some prime candidates for evaporative systems are manufacturing facilities, warehouses, prisons, repair and welding shops, machine rooms, stock confinement areas, milk barns, poultry houses, winery barrel rooms, packing sheds and produce operations.