Snowbreeze 4

At last we have the perfect Snowbreeze. We call it Snowbreeze 4.

Its benefits are:

1. It costs Rs.4,500 to make and should bring down the temperature in a 150 sq ft room by
10oC or even more.
2. Its can run on an inverter since it is powered by a 12” exhaust fan of 70 watts. It can be
freely used both as an air conditioner or a desert cooler by merely rolling it in and out of a
window and pressing the right button.
3. Its labour content is zero since all the components are mass produced items readily
available in the market. You can make it yourself today.
4. It can be rolled from room to room as a stand alone or connected to a refrigerator/chilling
machine in an instant.
5. Its cooling and dehumidification is the highest achieved so far by any snowbreeze model.
6. It is ideal for offices and halls. We have tried my large high powered desert cooler (that
serves the 300 sq ft space of my drawing and dining room) in a large room of 220 sq ft. The
results were excellent.
7. Unlike the other models of Snowbreeze, in this model you do not need a ceiling fan to
spread its cool air in the room.
8. It is also ideal for small towns with acute water problem during summer. They can use it as
long as they like on limited water with ice from the fridge or vendor.
9. It is easy to propagate since every one with a desert cooler can make it a dual purpose
appliance by merely putting inside it a copper coil, a tullu pump and a metal sheet to seal
off the water tank from the air.
10. To my great surprise, stored water in the copper coil and the tank below sets off convection
currents triggering the 4 to 6oC self-cooling process, and enhancing the utility of the device
(as happens in Snowbreeze 2)

Technology:
The Technology of Snowbreeze 4 is very simple. We discovered accidentally, during my
experiments of trial and error, that in the matter of moderating air flow to the right measure (by first
compressing the air and then amplifying it before ejecting it into the room), the design of the desert
cooler is unbeatable.
(Here is a mass produced item which, thanks to a cut throat competition, has achieved a
remarkable economy of scale. A gleaming 24”x20” desert cooler can be had for Rs.1400. We paid
another Rs.200 for the metal sheet covering the tank and about Rs.1000, for the fan)
Since we have a plentiful supply of copper coils and tullu pumps in my stock, we put a large
100 feet long coil worth about Rs.2000 and an extra tullu in the machine, put 10kg ice in the tank and
switched on the tullu pump and the fan. Ice cold water at 10oC started circulating in the copper coil. It
quickly cooled the air being sucked by the fan through the “dry” one inch thick grass padding of the
desert cooler. In about 15 minutes the temperature of my room came down from 23oC to 16oC. (In
summer it will drop at least by 10oC.)
The water tank is common to both systems. When used as an AC (inside the window) a
tullu pump circulates chilled water in the copper coil while the grass is kept dry. When used as a
desert cooler (outside the window) another tullu pump pours normal water from the same tank
on the grass. The tank is separated from the air chamber by a thick metal sheet.
Snowbreeze 4 – Front View

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 Snowbreeze 4 with Trolley and Chilling machine. The rear part of the Chilling machine
consisting of its heat producing condenser is sealed off. It opens in the adjoining bathroom.

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 Snowbreeze 4 as an air conditioner. It is set on an angle iron frame with
wheels on which it can be moved inside and outside the window on two smooth angle-iron channels.

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Snowbreeze 4 as a desert cooler with only the front inside the room. When used as air conditioner it rolls
out on these channels and the covering board on the wall is lowered to the floor.

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The body of Snowbreeze 4 has three detatchable walls (like this one) made of a one inch thick padding of
dry long grass through which the air is sucked into its large air chamber

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A mesh of copper coils is placed on a metal sheet facing the fan and covering it to circulate chilled water
from the tank below to cool dry air in the air chamber

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Thick metal sheet separates the water tank from the air chamber.

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Two tullu pumps are placed inside the tank, one to circulate water in the copper coils, when it works as an
AC, and the other to pour water on the grass, only when it works as desert cooler

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A larger unit of Snowbreeze-4

Front view

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An Overview of the large unit capable of cooling and dehumidifying 220 sq ft room

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A mesh of coils The box is placed on
encased in a box is a thick metal sheet Grass walls of the body
fitted around the covering the water can be seen on both sides
Exhaust fan. tank below it of it