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out. The dehumidification performance could be promoted
by increasing the air flow rate or decreasing the cooling
water temperature. The outlet temperature of the desiccant
solution increased with the increase of the temperature of
cooling water, and the outlet temperature of the solution
was very close to the outlet temperature of the cooling
water, which indicated that the PFHE had good cooling
performance for the desiccant. During the internally cooled
dehumidification process, the cooling efficiency of
desiccant deceased with the increase of the cooling water
temperature, which was very different from the only heat
transfer process in the PFHE. There is an optimal air flow
rate to achieve the maximum absolute humidity change of
the air. Here the optimal value of the air is about 0.07m
3
/s.
Contrastively studying the internally cooled and adiabatic
dehumidification processes, it is suggested that in order to
obtain good dehumidification performance, two very
important factors have to be taken into account: one is to
providing more contacted area between solution and air as
possible, and the other is to keep low temperature of the
solution and air. As a whole, both desiccant with low inlet
temperature and simultaneous cooling during the
dehumidification can provide better dehumidification
performance.
5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This research was supported by the grants from the fund of
National Natural Science Foundation of China under the
contracts No.50676018, the key grant project of Chinese
Ministry of Education (307013) and the Foundation for
Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Southeast University.
These supports are gratefully acknowledged.
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