Numerical Study on Cross Flow Maisotsenko Cycle Indirect Evaporative Cooling (MCIEC) Heat Exchanger

The Maisotsenko Cycle (M-Cycle) is a new heat exchanger model which captures energy from the ambient air by utilizing the psychrometric renewable heat transfer energy which can be obtained from the latent heat of water evaporating into the air. The cycle is well-known in the air-conditioning (AC) field due to its potential of dew-point evaporative cooling. However, its applicability has been recently expanded in several energy recovery applications. This paper provides the overview of M-Cycle and the general background of evaporative cooling system. The evaporative cooling is differentiated into direct evaporative and indirect evaporative cooling. M-cycle cooling is an indirect evaporative cooling that modified from the traditional IEC. The inventor of M-cycle is Valeriy Maisotsenko which is the founder for Coolerando company. Several research studies on M-cycle had been compared and analysed in this paper.