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US 6,324,860 B1Granted
Dehumidifying air-conditioning system
AssigneeEbara Corporation
InventorsKensaku Maeda, Hideo Inaba
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AssigneeEbara Corporation
InventorsKensaku Maeda, Hideo Inaba
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It is an object of the present invention to provide a dehumidifying air-conditioning system which increases the entire energy efficiency thereof to have a low operating cost, consume reduced electric energy in daytime, and radiate minimum heat into the atmosphere in thermal storage operation at night. The dehumidifying air-conditioning system has a heat pump for forming a vapor compression heat pump cycle, a path for processing air to be cooled by a low temperature heat source of the heat pump after moisture is adsorbed therefrom by a desiccant, a path for regenerating air which, after being heated by a high temperature heat source of the heat pump, passes through the desiccant that has adsorbed moisture to regenerate the desiccant, a chilling medium circulation path for cooling the processing air with the low temperature heat source of the heat pump, a heating medium circulation path for heating the regenerating air with the high temperature heat source of the heat pump, a first thermal storage device for cooling a chilling medium prior to being cooled by the low temperature heat source of the heat pump, and a second thermal storage device for heating a heating medium prior to being heated by the high temperature heat source of the heat pump.
A dehumidifying air-conditioning system having a heat pump for forming a vapor compression heat pump cycle, a path for processing air to be cooled by a low temperature heat source of the heat pump after moisture is adsorbed therefrom by a desiccant, and a path for regenerating air which, after being heated by a high temperature heat source of the heat pump, passes through the desiccant that has adsorbed moisture to regenerate the desiccant, the arrangement being such that the processing air and the regenerating air alternately flow through the desiccant, comprising:
A dehumidifying air-conditioning system having a first heat pump for forming a vapor compression heat pump cycle, a path for processing air to be cooled by a low temperature heat source of the first heat pump after moisture is adsorbed therefrom by a desiccant, and a path for regenerating air which, after being heated by a high temperature heat source of the first heat pump, passes through the desiccant that has adsorbed moisture to regenerate the desiccant, the arrangement being such that the processing air and the regenerating air alternately flow through the desiccant, comprising:
A dehumidifying air-conditioning system according to either one of claim wherein the latent heat storage material contained in the first thermal storage device comprises a mixture containing at least calcium chloride hexahydrate and nickel nitrate hexahydrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.