Refrigeration-type dehumidifying system with rotary dehumidifier

Patent · Tue Apr 19 04:00:00 EDT 1988

OSTI ID:7034780

Lin, W F

A dehumidifying system is described comprising: a rotary dehumidifier radially defining a dehumidifying chamber, a defrost chamber and a cooling chamber; a refrigerant circulator having a compressor circulating a refrigerant for cooling a primary cooler and a secondary cooler respectively cooling a dehumidifying air to lower its dew point below the ice point of water and the rotary dehumidifier; a dehumidifying-air circulator having an air loop duct communicated with a suction port of a building interior, and a defrost-air supplier having a suction duct communicated with an outside environment, an air blower blowing a warm air as heated by a defrost-air heater formed on the suction duct into the defrost chamber of the dehumidifier, and a discharge duct for outwardly discharging the water vapor as carried by the air from the defrost chamber.

• Assignee: NOV; NOV-88-016048; EDB-88-130348
• Patent Number(s): US 4738120
• OSTI ID: 7034780
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
320106* -- Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization-- Building Equipment-- (1987-)
AIR FLOW
BLOWERS
COOLING
DEFROSTING
DEHUMIDIFICATION
DEHUMIDIFIERS
DESIGN
FLUID FLOW
GAS FLOW
HEAT EXCHANGERS
MOTION
OPERATION
REFRIGERATION
ROTATION
WHEELS