Development and Analysis of Desiccant Enhanced Evaporative Air Conditioner Prototype

Eric Kozubal; Jason Woods; Ron Judkoff

doi:10.2172/1043778

Development and Analysis of Desiccant Enhanced Evaporative Air Conditioner Prototype

Eric Kozubal, Jason Woods, Ron Judkoff

Building Technologies and Science Center

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Abstract

This report documents the design of a desiccant enhanced evaporative air conditioner (DEVAP AC) prototype and the testing to prove its performance. Previous numerical modeling and building energy simulations indicate a DEVAP AC can save significant energy compared to a conventional vapor compression AC (Kozubal et al. 2011). The purposes of this research were to build DEVAP prototypes, test themto validate the numerical model, and identify potential commercialization barriers.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	78
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2172/1043778
State	Published - 2012

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NREL/TP-5500-54755

Keywords

building energy simulations
desiccant enhanced evaporative (DEVAP) air conditioning
prototype
vapor compression air conditioner

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