Summary
Ongoing research and development works suggest that good system configurations have significant potential for improving the performance and reducing the cost and size of rotary desiccant dehumidification and air conditioning system. In this paper, a novel desiccant cooling system using regenerative evaporative cooling and a one-rotor two-stage desiccant cooling system are analyzed and compared under Air-conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI) summer, ARI humid and Shanghai summer conditions. The objective of this paper is to compare the thermodynamic performance of the two systems and obtain useful data for practical application. It is found that compared with the conventional desiccant cooling system, the novel desiccant cooling system with regenerative evaporative cooling can handle air to a much lower temperature while maintaining good thermal performance. Under ARI summer, ARI humid and Shanghai summer conditions, the minimum attainable supply air temperatures are reduced from 13.5°C to 7.9°C, from 14.2°C to 9.2°C and from 18.0°C to 13.0°C respectively. It is suggested that the novel desiccant cooling system with regenerative evaporative cooling is beneficial to breaking the obstacle of limited temperature reduction encountered by conventional desiccant cooling system, especially in the case of extreme high humid conditions.
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- Original title: Use of regenerative evaporative cooling to improve the performance of a novel one-rotor two-stage solar desiccant dehumidification unit .
- Record ID : 30006009
- Languages: English
- Source: Applied Thermal Engineering - vol. 42
- Publication date: 2012/09
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2011.01.010
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