Patent ID: 11951416
Assignee: REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Field: Chemical engineering (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC B  C  Y | IPC B  C

Claim 2:
3. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform a method, the method comprising:
receiving data corresponding to weather conditions;
receiving a system model, the system model corresponding to a size of an evaporator; and
selecting, based on the received data and the system model, at least one of an evaporator operational mode, a fluid flow rate, a temperature, and an air flow rate, the fluid flow rate corresponding to fluid flow across an evaporation surface of the evaporator, the temperature corresponding to a thermal element, the thermal element corresponding to a fluid temperature, an air temperature, or an evaporation surface temperature, and the air flow rate corresponding to air flow across the evaporation surface of the evaporator.