Ay. Khan, COOLING AND DEHUMIDIFICATION PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF INTERNALLY-COOLED LIQUID DESICCANT ABSORBERS, Applied thermal engineering, 18(5), 1998, pp. 265-281
A heat and mass transfer performance analysis of an internally-cooled
liquid desiccant absorber (ICLDA) is presented in this paper. For this
purpose, a two dimensional steady state model is developed and solved
numerically to predict the cooling and dehumidification performance o
f an ICLDA. Several important performance parameters which strongly in
fluence the performance of an ICLDA are identified in this study. Base
d on the NTU-effectiveness methodology, an easy-to-use performance pre
diction model of an ICLDA is also developed in this work. The easy-to-
use model can be utilized to estimate the annual energy requirements o
f an ICLDA using an hour-by-hour analysis. Finally, the total load and
latent load removal performance as predicted by the model in this wor
k is compared with the easy-to-use model predictions as well as catalo
g performance data for some commercially available ICLDAs. (C) 1998 El
sevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.