How Have Historical Cooling Methods Inspired Modern Techniques?

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I have project about cooling the room with ice and fan, I want introduction to type it in the report, any idea, thanks :smile:
 
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JohnAna said:
I have project about cooling the room with ice and fan, I want introduction to type it in the report, any idea, thanks :smile:
The fan (assuming it's electric) is a heater (if the fan is hand-wielded, then the wielder is a heater) -- if it's a 60-watt fan, it produces the same heat as a 60-watt lamp. Beyond that, you haven't said: how much ice, how big a room, starting temperature of the air in the room, etc..
 
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Thanks!, i wrote the calculation and everything related to the project, but what i need is an introduction like general information about cooling system using fan and ice . :smile:
 
You didn't write the specific information in this thread. The general information is that blowing warm air over a block of ice tends to melt the ice while cooling the air to somewhere near the temperature of the ice. If you have a block of ice that's half the size of the room, and a big fan, the room and the melted ice (water) will soon be at a temperature not much higher than that of the inside of the block of ice, except the fan motor, which will be comparatively warm until it's turned off.
 
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Why not talk about historical methods of cooling such as the traditional icehouse and transport of ice for iceboxes.

Your introduction should introduce your project saying perhaps what problem you encountered that caused you to develop this solution and then you segway into the introduction to your project in particular.