Evaporative Cooling - Indirect

Indirect evaporative cooling uses an additional waterside coil to lower supply air temperature. The added coil is placed ahead of the conventional cooling coil in the supply airstream, and is piped to a cooling tower where the evaporative process occurs. Because evaporation occurs elsewhere, this method of "precooling" does not add moisture to the supply air, but is less effective than direct evaporative cooling. That is, it will not cool air to as low a temperature at the same outside air wet bulb.