Comparative study of different desiccant wheel designs

R Narayanan, WY Saman, SD White… - Applied Thermal …, 2011 - Elsevier
Desiccant/evaporative cooling systems offer an environmentally benign alternative to
conventional vapor compression chillers. A desiccant wheel is the heart of this heat driven …

Numerical study on the heat and mass transfer in charging and discharging processes of a triangular honeycomb thermochemical energy storage reactor

X Han, C Zeng, S Liu, Z Wang, S Deng… - Applied Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Adsorption heat storage based on porous adsorbents attracts considerable attention for the
high energy storage density and long storage duration compared to sensible and latent heat …

Experimental analysis and numerical modelling of an AQSOA zeolite desiccant wheel

M Intini, M Goldsworthy, S White, CM Joppolo - Applied Thermal …, 2015 - Elsevier
An AQSOA zeolite based-desiccant wheel is experimentally and numerically investigated in
the present work. The synthetic zeolite AQSOA benefits from a favourable S-shape isotherm …

A non-adiabatic desiccant wheel: Modeling and experimental validation

R Narayanan, WY Saman, SD White - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2013 - Elsevier
Desiccant/evaporative cooling systems offer an environmentally friendly alternative to
conventional vapor compression chillers. The desiccant wheel is the heart of this heat-driven …

Performance study of heat and mass transfer in an adsorption process by numerical simulation

D Cheng, EF Peters, JAMH Kuipers - Chemical Engineering Science, 2017 - Elsevier
In this work, a detailed three dimensional model is employed for the quantitative description
of flow and coupled heat and mass transfer in a gas channel coated with porous adsorbent …

Study of purge angle effects on the desiccant wheel performance

MA Mandegari, S Farzad, G Angrisani… - Energy conversion and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Desiccant cooling systems are spreading as a promising technology to reduce the energy
consumption and environmental impact of conventional electric driven vapour compression …

Numerical modelling of flow and coupled mass and heat transfer in an adsorption process

D Cheng, EF Peters, JAMH Kuipers - Chemical Engineering Science, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper, a detailed three dimensional mathematical formulation and a simplified one
dimensional model for the numerical simulation of the flow and coupled heat and mass …

Effectiveness parameters for the prediction of the global performance of desiccant wheels–an assessment based on experimental data

CR Ruivo, JJ Costa, AR Figueiredo, A Kodama - Renewable energy, 2012 - Elsevier
The desiccant wheel is a key component in solid-desiccant systems that can be used in non-
conventional building air conditioning systems in order to use renewable energy sources …

Exergy performance analysis and optimization of a desiccant wheel system

M Ali Mandegari, S Farzad… - Journal of …, 2015 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This paper focused on the exergy analysis and optimization of a dehumidification desiccant
wheel (DW) system. A two-dimensional unsteady state numerical model was developed for …

Improvements of an unconventional desiccant air conditioning system based on experimental investigations

G Angrisani, F Minichiello, M Sasso - Energy Conversion and Management, 2016 - Elsevier
Desiccant-based HVAC systems are nowadays a convenient alternative to conventional
systems based on dehumidification by cooling, because they allow the reduction of …