Design and performance assessments of solar driven liquid desiccant air conditioning system components

Abstract

In recent years solar driven liquid desiccant based air conditioning system ACS has been projected as a promising alternative for handling large latent loads gt 50 TR or 176 kW compared to solid desiccant vapour compression and vapour absorption based ACSs Dehumidifier regenerator and solar collector are the key components of solar driven liquid desiccant based ACS In this thesis developed thermal models for assessing the heat and mass transfer characteristics at the air desiccant inter...