Professional Documents
Culture Documents
The EPA Evaporation equation was developed to estimate evaporation from the surface of a pool of
liquid that is at or near ambient temperature. Please note that the equation as been modified from its
general form to be applicable to calculating evaporation from swimming pools.
Where:
The following equation was developed by Warren Stiver and Dennis Mackay of the Chemical
Engineering Department at the University of Toronto. It can be used to estimate evaporation from the
surface of a pool of liquid that is at or near ambient temperature. Please note that the equation as
been modified from its general form to be applicable to calculating evaporation from swimming
pools.
Where:
Condominium = 0.65
Wavepools = 1.5+
Where:
For a swimming pool with water temperature 25oC the saturation humidity ratio is 0.02 kg/kg.
With an air temperature of 25oC and 50% relative humidity - the humidity ratio in the air
is 0.0098kg/kg - Mollier diagram.
For a 25 m x 20 m swimming pool and 0.5 m/s air velocity above the surface - the evaporation
can be calculated as
= 0.049 kg/s
Heat supply required to maintain the temperature of the water can be calculated as
= 110.6 kW
reducing the air velocity above the water surface - limited effect
increase the moisture content in the air - may increase the condensation and damage of
the building constructions for indoor pools
remove the wet surface - possible with plastic blankets on the water surface outside
operation time. Very effective and commonly used