date-created: '2010-04-06'
date-updated: '2025-11-28'
manifest-author:
    name: Appropedia
    email: admin@appropedia.org
title: 'Charcoal Cooler'
description: 'A charcoal cooler uses the principal of evaporative cooling to maintain a cool interior temperature for refrigeration and food preservation. The device is constructed from an open timber frame with charcoal filled sides, which is kept continually moist. As warm, dry air flows through the moist charcoal, water is evaporated into the air and it is cooled. The basic principles of heat and mass transfer underlie the function of the charcoal cooler. A simplified analytical model was developed in Engineering Equation Solver (EES) to determine the functionality of the charcoal cooler for a variety of outdoor conditions and design variables.'
keywords:
    - charcoal
    - 'evaporative cooling'
    - 'food preservation'
    - mesh
    - plastic
    - wood
    - Engineering
    - 'Air conditioning'
project-link: 'https://www.appropedia.org/Charcoal_Cooler'
contact:
    name: 'User:L.Crofoot'
    social:
        platform: Appropedia
        user-handle: 'User:L.Crofoot'
version: 187
development-stage: Designed
made: false
image: 'https://www.appropedia.org/w/images/8/8c/CC_charcol.JPG'
license:
    documentation: CC-BY-SA-3.0
licensor:
    name: 'User:L.Crofoot'
    affliation: 'Category:Queens University, Kingston'
    contact: 'https://www.appropedia.org/User:L.Crofoot'
documentation-home: 'https://www.appropedia.org/Charcoal_Cooler'
documentation-language: en