Breakthrough Video: Desiccant Enhanced Evaporative Air Conditioning
Abstract
Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) invented a breakthrough technology that improves air conditioning in a novel way—with heat. NREL combined desiccant materials, which remove moisture from the air using heat, and advanced evaporative technologies to develop a cooling unit that uses 90% less electricity and up to 80% less total energy than traditional air conditioning (AC). This solution, called the desiccant enhanced evaporative air conditioner (DEVAP), also controls humidity more effectively to improve the comfort of people in buildings.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1047710
- Resource Type:
- Multimedia
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY; 30 DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION; DESICCANT; ENHANCED; EVAPORATIVE; AIR; CONDITIONER; DEVAP; DOE; NREL; NATIONAL; RENEWABLE; ENERGY; LAB
Citation Formats
Kozubal, Eric, and Judkoff, Ron. Breakthrough Video: Desiccant Enhanced Evaporative Air Conditioning. United States: N. p., 2012.
Web.
Kozubal, Eric, & Judkoff, Ron. Breakthrough Video: Desiccant Enhanced Evaporative Air Conditioning. United States.
Kozubal, Eric, and Judkoff, Ron. Wed .
"Breakthrough Video: Desiccant Enhanced Evaporative Air Conditioning". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1047710.
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title = {Breakthrough Video: Desiccant Enhanced Evaporative Air Conditioning},
author = {Kozubal, Eric and Judkoff, Ron},
abstractNote = {Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) invented a breakthrough technology that improves air conditioning in a novel way—with heat. NREL combined desiccant materials, which remove moisture from the air using heat, and advanced evaporative technologies to develop a cooling unit that uses 90% less electricity and up to 80% less total energy than traditional air conditioning (AC). This solution, called the desiccant enhanced evaporative air conditioner (DEVAP), also controls humidity more effectively to improve the comfort of people in buildings.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Apr 25 00:00:00 EDT 2012},
month = {Wed Apr 25 00:00:00 EDT 2012}
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