rather than fixing many radiators and fans in a liquid based PC cooling system, i came up with an idea of a cooling tower..and drew a basic design of it..this is how it work
the pump sucks the water from the reservior and delivers it to the shower/sprinkler which causes the water to drip across the tower columb.
The fan on the top causes an airlow in the columb.The flow of air is opposite to the direction of water dripping.
the water droplets travelling from the top of coloumb to bottom will meet the air travelling in opposite direction of droplet flow. Droplets will have a big surface area which will cause the water droplets to quickly lose their heat to air, More ever forced airflow will casue rapid evaporation of water from droplets causing cooling hence the droplets temprature will me much cooler.
this cool water droplets will fall on the radiator absorbing the heat from the radiator quickly and making their way to the resevior again.
the radiator is connected in a closed loop with is own pump and resevior which is circulating coolant to keep processor cool. the "hot in" is for hot coolant in and "cold out" is for coolant out after cooling.
they are actually two systems in one...one system circulates coolant in a loop to keep the CPU cool while other system circulates odinary water to reduce the coolant temps. the liquid in both systems do not mix together at any point.
rather than passing water over the radiator, this cold water can be trapped and directly circulated into the CPU cooling system and then returned to resevior hence eliminating the need of second pump. This is not shown in the diagram though.
moisture trap is used to reduced excess water loss from the system due to evaporation. It is generally made of some kind of fiber or aluminum fins places closed together and bent at certain degree (similar pattern seen in airconditioner condenser)
air filter at air inlet grille will trap dust particles which would other wise contaminate the water and may cause pump to malfuntion. a water filter can be incorpoated at the pump inlet to further remove any contamination in water to enter the pump.
the housing might be tricky to build.. probably would be 120 wide x 1500MM high and can be built using 1/4 inch thick plexi glass..a clean built system with good led lighting would also serve a purpose of decoration in the room ;-)
i borrowed this idea from commerical airconditioning and i belive a system like this would have a lot of potential provided correct componets are used.. i would start working on it to keep half dozen 1U rack dual processor servers cool.. they give out good heat but their small heat sink and noisy fans r inadequate to keep them cool without heavy airconditiong driving electricity cost high
attached zip file with this message contains the diagrams of this idea.. due to file size i couldnt attach it with message as image so i zipped it up
the pump sucks the water from the reservior and delivers it to the shower/sprinkler which causes the water to drip across the tower columb.
The fan on the top causes an airlow in the columb.The flow of air is opposite to the direction of water dripping.
the water droplets travelling from the top of coloumb to bottom will meet the air travelling in opposite direction of droplet flow. Droplets will have a big surface area which will cause the water droplets to quickly lose their heat to air, More ever forced airflow will casue rapid evaporation of water from droplets causing cooling hence the droplets temprature will me much cooler.
this cool water droplets will fall on the radiator absorbing the heat from the radiator quickly and making their way to the resevior again.
the radiator is connected in a closed loop with is own pump and resevior which is circulating coolant to keep processor cool. the "hot in" is for hot coolant in and "cold out" is for coolant out after cooling.
they are actually two systems in one...one system circulates coolant in a loop to keep the CPU cool while other system circulates odinary water to reduce the coolant temps. the liquid in both systems do not mix together at any point.
rather than passing water over the radiator, this cold water can be trapped and directly circulated into the CPU cooling system and then returned to resevior hence eliminating the need of second pump. This is not shown in the diagram though.
moisture trap is used to reduced excess water loss from the system due to evaporation. It is generally made of some kind of fiber or aluminum fins places closed together and bent at certain degree (similar pattern seen in airconditioner condenser)
air filter at air inlet grille will trap dust particles which would other wise contaminate the water and may cause pump to malfuntion. a water filter can be incorpoated at the pump inlet to further remove any contamination in water to enter the pump.
the housing might be tricky to build.. probably would be 120 wide x 1500MM high and can be built using 1/4 inch thick plexi glass..a clean built system with good led lighting would also serve a purpose of decoration in the room ;-)
i borrowed this idea from commerical airconditioning and i belive a system like this would have a lot of potential provided correct componets are used.. i would start working on it to keep half dozen 1U rack dual processor servers cool.. they give out good heat but their small heat sink and noisy fans r inadequate to keep them cool without heavy airconditiong driving electricity cost high
attached zip file with this message contains the diagrams of this idea.. due to file size i couldnt attach it with message as image so i zipped it up