Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Towerat first I thought ( WTH ) it was a sewer drain in the middle of the room!!

ya, tomorrow if you can post more close up photo that would be cool!!!

and details on how it worked!!

WB

ShockTheMonky

Cool. One question tho. Where's the bowl?

i would like to know as well

They were trying to be funny ala cheech and chong....

Man, you sure do work it , Nate...Great Job! 

As per usual Nateman you never fail to impress Thanks for sharing

Nice! How loud is it?

Halo_003

Nice! How loud is it?

VERY loud.  like rain forest loud (without all the tropical birds)

VERY loud.  like rain forest loud (without all the tropical birds)


That is one reason they still use cast iron and the other being the fire rating.. you could make that out of copper if you knew how to work it and they still make brass dwv fittings..
 
Also are you pushing air in or pulling out? is the top open for air to rise and vent off the heat?

thanks gents.  What would help would be one of those low water shower heads that mist the water, but that requires a much heavier duty pump.  Traditional shower heads make the water more of a stream, and while the water is falling it sorta breaks up into droplets.  With the mist happening immediately up towards the top, it would cool much more when it got towards the bottom.  the fans are blowing into the core, and vent out the top.  There is so much air flow from the fans, that it slows the  flow of the liquid flowing. 



As you can see I just made removable fans that just slide in there so I can add liquid quickly.  You can see the water leve in the opening.  The pump is a tiny 350 gph pond pump.  It is garbage.  the swiftech MCP 655 pump ate it for lunch and launches the water through the ENTIRE system, AND the 7 foot tall cooler.  I plan on getting a much more powerful pump for this project and perhaps a much more fine mist shower head or even garden hose attachment?

as for making that out of copper, do you have any idea how much a 6" by 7 foot tall copper pipe would cost?!
heh... more then the computer probably. 

you really don't have to have a humid room at all, as you can vent the top of the tube outside the house, and to further decrease temps, I could port air from outside into the fans with dryer duct.  If I insulate the pipe, it would probably be much quiter, but then it would more then double the cost of the project. 

Looks good nate. Tell me what you think of this design.
 

 
My idea is that sense there was a problem with evaporation which thene foems into condesation, why not close off the only real avenue it has which is out the top. Set up a cross over to another pipe which has a fan blowing down the pipe. This way any water evaporating will channel to the other pipe, get cooled bay the fan, then be recycled back down to the resevoir. The midst from the shower head going down the main pipe will of course be cooled by the fans positioned close to the shower head and also close to the bottom like yours but also by the fan at the top of the second pipe as it sends its air down the pipe with cooled condesated water.
 
I know it sounds crazy but looks to me to be very functional in it's design and purpose. So what you think?

All fans blow in. Top fan main pipe hits water as it first comes out of shower head. As it falls any water that may evaporate at top will be pulled by vacume created by fan at top of second pipe which is blowing down the pipe causing the air preasure above the fan to be lower than the air preasure blow the fan. This is where the vacume occurs pulling the evaporated water through. As it hits the air blown in by the fan it then condesates and is pushed down the pipe where it meets in with the first pipe. You can place it's entry above the second fan of the main pipe or below. By placing it above the second fan you will allow both the water from the second pipe as well as the main pipe to recieve a second level of cooling before re-entering the resevoir. By placing it's entry below the second fan then it will simply drop to the resevoir. Either way condesation is not caused simply recycled.
 
As for noise, any noise produced will be dampened by the loop at the top so most of the sound will move down and be dampened by the water in the resevoir.

Fiius

Err, Shock - I thought the point of the bong cooler was evaporative cooling.
Wouldnt this screw up the cooling?

~Fus

Acually no. Evaporation is allowed to occur but rather than it going out the top and condesating in the room or where ever, you are redirecting the evaporated water to another channel where it is then allowed to condesate to which it is then simply directed back to the main resevoir where it then can do the same thing all over again.

So. Explain to me how if the evaporation process is allowed to occur but instead of allowing the evaporated water to escape to the atmophere and condesate some where else when it cools, how does pulling the evaporated water into a seperate chamber, allowing it to condensate and then recycling the cooled evaporated water back into the loop, cause the concept to be broken. Evaporation is allowed to occur. Isn't that the whole theory behind this. As long as evaporation is allowed to occur, what is done with the evaporated water after it is vented out has no affect on the rest of the process.

That would work also. If you drop the collector pipe straight down into the res but not all the way into the water itself, then the air will be allowed to escape relieving any possible air pressure building up, but allowing the already condesated water to drop into the res. Simply have the cover on the res slightly ventalated to allow air to move out also.

I didnt mean to stir the s*** stick.

If anyone wanted to give this a try, I would be interested in the results.

~Fus

Ok so If I under stand this right, the actual evaporation is causes by the fans at the bottom forcing air UP the bong going against the flow of the droplets an causing some of it to evaporate, thus cool?

If I understand that correctly there would be some problems with ShockTheMonkeys design mainly being that with the placements of the top fan and the side collector pipe stopping the needed upwards airflow. But that only if I understand how a normal bong cooler works.