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The design and evaluation of several configurations of evaporative cooling systems for air conditioning of a dwelling for low-income sectors in Mexicali, Mexico using simulation with TRNSYS 16.A is presented in this paper. The configurations studied include direct as well as indirect evaporative cooling with heat exchange and also systems with solid desiccant. The main rating parameters to classify the different configurations are the internal comfort conditions, the efficiency and the number of required equipments. The results show that the best configuration is one that includes a heat exchanger that pre-cools the air inlet stream with a cooling stream delivered by air coming from the dwell, but there is a small fraction of the time during the day that comfort is not met. If thermal comfort is to be met during the whole day, solid desiccant systems are the best choice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of the present work is to dimension and evaluate an absorption LiBr-H2O cooling system assisted by solar energy and natural gas for air conditioning of a group of housings in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. The analysis of the hourly, daily and monthly operating performance in the period with more cooling demand is carried out by mean of TRNSYS 16, and it is seeking the least collection area and the highest solar fraction; that which is translated in the minimum operation cost and initial investment. It was found that the system generates conditions of the space between comfortably warm and comfortably cold, according to ISO 7730 (2005), with 287 m² of evacuated tubes which contribute 90% of the required energy. The system is technically feasible, since it covers the cooling demand during the summer period and it requires a similar collecting area to the available one in the housing compounds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]