A new neural network modeling approach to the evaporator performance under dry and wet conditions has been developed. Not only the total cooling capacity but also the sensible heat ratio and pressure drops on both air and refrigerant sides are modeled. Since the evaporator performance under dry and wet conditions is, respectively, dominated by the dry-bulb temperature and the web-bulb temperature, two neural networks are used together for capturing the characteristics. Training of a multi-input multi-output neural network is separated into training of multi-input single-output neural networks for improving the modeling flexibility and training efficiency. Compared with a well-developed physics-based model, the standard deviations of trained neural networks under dry and wet conditions are less than 1% and 2%, respectively. Compared with the experimental data, errors fall into $±5%$.

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