Air conditioning system having multiple energy regeneration capabilities

A system for conditioning air to be supplied to an interior space, comprising:

• means defining a passageway through which supply air flows during conditioning thereof, the supply air passageway being communicated with the interior space for delivery of conditioned supply air to the interior space;
• means for advancing supply air along the supply air passageway;
• means for reducing the humidity of supply air in the supply air passageway, the humidity reducing means being recircularbly movable between a supply air contact area in which it contacts supply air to receive water content therefrom and thereby reduce the humidity of the supply air and a regeneration area in which water content is removed from the humidity reducing means;
• means for cooling reduced humidity supply air, the cooling means being disposed downstream of the humidity reducing means;
• means defining an exhaust air passageway separate from the supply air passageway for the flow therethrough of an air stream constituted of at least exhaust air received from the interior space;
• means defining an outside air passageway separate from the supply air passageway and the exhaust air passageway, the outside air passageway for the flow therethrough of outside air received from outside of the interior space;
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• circulation means for circulating in a closed cycle a heat transfer medium among the cooling means, a first transfer zone disposed in the exhaust air passageway, and a second transfer zone disposed in the outside air passageway, the circulation means including a conduit assembly for transporting the heat transfer medium in a closed loop out of direct contact with the supply air, the exhaust air, or the outside air, the passage of exhaust air into contact with the circulation means in the first transfer zone resulting in a heat exchange by which the exhaust air is heated and the heat transfer medium is cooled and the passage of outside air into contact with the circulation means resulting in another heat exchange by which the outside air is heated to become increased heat content outside air and the heat transfer medium is cooled, the heat exchange in said second transfer zone further resulting in the vaporizing of moisture in said outside air, and the regeneration area for regenerating the humidity reducing means being disposed downstream of the second transfer zone in the outside air passageway for receiving increased heat content outside air in a regeneration process by which the increased heat content outside air removes water content of the humidity reducing means.