Polymer desiccant and system for dehumidified air conditioning
OwnerMilton Mecklerinventor
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Abstract
A liquid polymer-salt solution as a desiccant in an air conditioning system comprised of a heat-pipe having its heat absorber section in an outside air inlet duct following water vapor adsorption into the desiccant by a contacter section of a dehumidifier, and the heat-pipe having its heat rejecter section in an exhaust air duct and preferably preceeding water vapor discharge from the desiccant by a regenerater section of the dehumidifier.
Claims19
An air conditioning system having an outside air inlet duct and a conditioned air supply duct into a conditioned space, and an air dehumidifier means for processing a water vapor adsorptive liquid desiccant including;
- a contacter section in the inlet duct for interface contact of outside air with said liquid desiccant applied thereto by a distribution means to adsorb water vapor therefrom and thereby weakening the liquid desiccant,
- a regenerater section to remove said adsorbed water vapor from said weakened desiccant from the contacter section and returned thereto by said distribution means,
- and a heat source means applying heat to the regenerater section for said removal of adsorbed water vapor therefrom,
- the liquid desiccant being a hygroscopic polymer-salt sulfonated and in solution.
An air conditioning system having an outside air inlet duct, a conditioned air supply duct into a conditioned space, a return air duct from said conditioned space and a relief exhaust air duct exhausting return air displaced by outside air and with a blower means to transport said outside, supply, return and relief air, and including;
- an air dehumidifier means for processing a water vapor adsorptive liquid desiccant and having a contacter section in the inlet duct for interface contact of outside air with said liquid desiccant applied thereto by a distribution means to adsorb water vapor therefrom and having a regenerater section in the relief air duct for interface contact of relief exhaust air with weakened liquid desiccant from the contacter section and applied thereto by a distribution means,
- a heat source means applying heat to the regenerater section to remove water from the liquid desiccant and into the exhaust air,
- and a heat-pipe having a heat absorber section in the inlet duct following said contacter section for removing the heat of adsorption in the dehumidified air therefrom, and a heat rejecter section in the relief exhaust air duct ahead of the regenerater section for applying heat to the regenerater secton to supplement said heat source means heat application thereto.
An air conditioning system having an outside air inlet duct, a conditioned air supply duct into a conditioned space, a return air duct from said conditioned space and a relief exhaust air duct exhausting return air displaced by outside air and with a blower means to transport said outside, supply, return and relief air, and including;
- an air dehumidifier means for processing a water vapor absorptive liquid desiccant and having a contacter section in the form of a heat exchanger in the inlet duct for interface contact of outside air and wetted with said liquid desiccant applied thereto by a distribution means to adsorb water vapor therefrom, a regenerater section in the relief air duct for interface contact of relief exhaust air with weakened liquid desiccant from the contactor section and applied thereto by a distribution means,
- a heat source means applying heat to the regenerater section to remove water therefrom and into the exhaust air,
- a cooling source means in circuit with the contacter section heat exchanger to extract heat of adsorption therefrom,
- and a heat-pipe having a heat absorber section in the inlet duct following said contacter section for removing the heat of adsorption in the dehumidified air therefrom, and a heat rejector section in the relief exhaust air duct ahead of the regenerater section for applying heat to the regenerater section to supplement said heat source means heat application thereto.
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