Evaporation - Applications

Applications

• When clothes are hung on a laundry line, even though the ambient temperature is below the boiling point of water, water evaporates. This is accelerated by factors such as low humidity, heat (from the sun), and wind. In a clothes dryer, hot air is blown through the clothes, allowing water to evaporate very rapidly.

• The Matki/Matka, a traditional Indian porous clay container used for storing and cooling water and other liquids.

• The botijo, a traditional Spanish porous clay container designed to cool the contained water by evaporation.

• Evaporative coolers, which can significantly cool a building by simply blowing dry air over a filter saturated with water.