Special Issue "Advances in Dew Point Evaporative Cooling Techniques"

Dear Colleagues,

Air conditioning is an essential need to maintain comfortable and suitable environments for human beings to stay and delicate devices to operate. In particular, the significant climate change in recent years has emphasized the importance of heating and cooling systems to get through the extreme weather conditions. The advent of digitization and electrification has led to a drastically increasing demand for the cooling of electrical and electronic systems, such as data centers and battery packs. However, conventional heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, driven by the vapor-compression refrigeration cycle, are energy intensive and could account for 50% of a building’s energy consumption, which imposes great challenges to achieve a sustainable future with net-zero carbon emissions.

Dew-point evaporative cooling is one of the emerging green and energy-efficient technologies that could be an ideal alternative to conventional air conditioning in many applications. It has attracted broad attention from both research and industrial communities in the past decade. Through the design, fabrication, and testing of a variety of dew-point evaporative coolers, its merits in cooling effectiveness, energy efficiency and cost have been demonstrated in many applications, including air conditioning, cooling towers, gas turbines, desalination, etc.

This Special Issue aims to facilitate a multidisciplinary platform for worldwide scientific and industrial communities to discuss existing research achievements, challenges and opportunities of dew-point evaporative cooling and other novel energy-efficient cooling technologies. Insightful ideas and findings on relevant cooling technologies with regard to design, optimization, fluid flow, thermodynamics, multiphysics and data-driven modelling, life-cycle analysis, etc. are strongly encouraged to advance the development and increase public awareness.

This Special Issue welcomes contributions from all relevant research work, and welcomes research topics including (but not limited to) the following:

• Evaporative cooling technologies and applications;
• Materials for cooling devices;
• Sustainable cooling systems;
• Cooling for thermal management;
• Heating, ventilation and air conditioning;
• Multiscale and multiphysics modelling and simulations;
• System control and optimization;
• Techno-economic analysis.

Dr. Jie Lin
Dr. Yiji Lu
Dr. Sibao Wang
Prof. Dr. Kim Choon Ng
Guest Editors

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• evaporative cooling
• decoupled latent and sensible cooling
• heating, ventilation and air conditioning
• combined cooling, heating and power
• thermal management
• energy in buildings
• heat and mass exchanger
• cooling thermodynamics
• heat transfer