TY - JOUR
T1 - Performance investigation on solid desiccant assisted mobile air conditioning system
AU - Lee, Hoseong
AU - Lin, Xiaojie
AU - Hwang, Yunho
AU - Radermacher, Reinhard
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the sponsors of the Center for Environmental Energy Engineering (CEEE), University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA , and partially supported by a Korea University Grant .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/6/25
Y1 - 2016/6/25
N2 - In the conventional mobile air conditioning system, the temperature and humidity control is achieved by a vapor compression system. This system cools the air down to lower than the dew point temperate of the cabin to control the humidity. Thus, reheating of the air is necessary. These two factors could increase the fuel consumption of the system. To overcome these issues, a solid desiccant assisted mobile air conditioning system is proposed and investigated. The desiccant assisted technology can separate the latent heat load from the sensible heat load, which will effectively increase the evaporating temperature and reduce the power consumption of the compressor. It is proposed to apply the solid desiccant to the mobile air conditioning system to handle most of latent load, while the vapor compression cycle handles the remaining latent load and sensible load. The model of the proposed concept is developed and validated with experimental data. Lastly, the possible configurations of the solid desiccant assisted mobile air conditioning system are discussed.
AB - In the conventional mobile air conditioning system, the temperature and humidity control is achieved by a vapor compression system. This system cools the air down to lower than the dew point temperate of the cabin to control the humidity. Thus, reheating of the air is necessary. These two factors could increase the fuel consumption of the system. To overcome these issues, a solid desiccant assisted mobile air conditioning system is proposed and investigated. The desiccant assisted technology can separate the latent heat load from the sensible heat load, which will effectively increase the evaporating temperature and reduce the power consumption of the compressor. It is proposed to apply the solid desiccant to the mobile air conditioning system to handle most of latent load, while the vapor compression cycle handles the remaining latent load and sensible load. The model of the proposed concept is developed and validated with experimental data. Lastly, the possible configurations of the solid desiccant assisted mobile air conditioning system are discussed.
KW - Mobile air conditioning system
KW - SSLC
KW - Separate sensible and latent cooling
KW - Solid desiccant
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U2 - 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2016.05.053
DO - 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2016.05.053
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84966300019
SN - 1359-4311
VL - 103
SP - 1370
EP - 1380
JO - Applied Thermal Engineering
JF - Applied Thermal Engineering
ER -