Performance of cross-cooled desiccant dehumidifiers

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1980

OSTI ID:6780264

Mei, V. C.; Lavan, Z.

A cross-cooled silica gel desiccant dehumidifier model was designed, built and tested. The performance of the unit was studied as a function of inlet process stream dew point, process stream and cooling stream flowrates and regeneration stream temperature and dew point. The tests were also simulated by a computer program and were compared to the experimental results.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA); Illinois Inst. of Tech., Chicago (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-26
• OSTI ID: 6780264
• Report Number(s): CONF-801102-29
• Resource Relation: Conference: ASME winter annual meeting, Chicago, IL, USA, 16 Nov 1980
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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14 SOLAR ENERGY
DEHUMIDIFIERS
PERFORMANCE
SOLAR AIR CONDITIONERS
BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
DESICCANTS
DESIGN
DEW POINT
FLOW RATE
PERFORMANCE TESTING
REGENERATION
SILICA GEL
ADSORBENTS
AIR CONDITIONERS
EQUIPMENT
SIMULATION
SOLAR COOLING SYSTEMS
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
TESTING
140901* - Solar Thermal Utilization- Space Heating & Cooling