M. Al-nimr et al., A night cold storage system enhanced by radiative cooling - a modified Australian cooling system, APPL TH ENG, 19(9), 1999, pp. 1013-1026
A mathematical model describing the performance of a modified Australian co
oling system is presented. The modified Australian cooling system is a nigh
t cold storage system enhanced by radiative cooling. The working fluid in t
he modified cooling system is cooled by passing the fluid through a radiati
ve cooling panel which cools itself by long-wave thermal radiation to the c
old sky temperature. An analytical, closed form solution is presented which
predicts the temperature response of the modified system. The analytical s
olutions are verified experimentally, where it is found that both theoretic
al and experimental results are in a good agreement. (C) 1999 Elsevier Scie
nce Ltd. All rights reserved.