More About Mist / Fog Cooling & Why It is So Efficient?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial Misting or fogging as some people call it, is the atomization of water droplets to a size that can evaporate quickly. This is achieved by forcing water through a specially designed mist nozzle at a pressure that can create a fog of ultra fine water droplets (as little as 5 microns). These tiny water droplets quickly absorb the energy (heat) present in the environment and evaporate, becoming water vapor (gas). The energy (heat) used to change the water to a gas is eliminated from the environment, hence the air is cooled. SMARTMIST™ is exponentially more efficient then other means of evaporative pre-cooling because of the rate at which it can evaporate water and use the 8000 BTUs of cooling potential per gallon of water.

Imagine that 1 gallon of water, atomized through our SMARTMIST™ high pressure mist system, has a total surface area larger than a soccer field and you will quickly realize how efficiently we can evaporate that gallon of water. Compare this to the limits of an evaporative pad system, with only a fraction of the surface area. This is why mist pre-cooling systems can be used in higher humidity climates then evaporative pad systems.

The other big advantage of SMARTMISTT mist pre-cooling is that it takes very little energy or water to achieve a dramatic drop in temperature of up to 50°F depending on ambient temperature & humidity.. Approximate costs per 400,000 BTUs of Cooling = about $0.50/hr for both electric and water.