Abstract:
An apparatus for removing moisture and odors comprising a cylindrical honeycomb structure made by corrugation from paper uniformly containing an adsorbent, including a multiplicity of parallel gas passageways and having deposited thereon a water absorbent at least at one side thereof serving as an outlet for the gas to be treated, a number of the gas passageways being separated as a dehumidifying and deodorizing zone from the other passageways serving as a regenerating zone, the dehumidifying and deodorizing zone being continuously shiftable throughout the entire honeycomb structure circumferentially thereof to render the honeycomb structure serviceable, from portion to portion, as the dehumidifying and deodorizing zone provided by the number of passageways.
Abstract:
An open-cycle type air conditioner includes three major passges; a room air passage defined between a room air inlet and a room air outlet; an outside air passage defined between an outside air inlet and an outside air outlet; and a regenerative air passage defined between a regenerative air inlet and a regenerative air outlet. A room air blower unit is disposed in the room air passage face to face with the room air inlet. A rotary latent heat exchanger which preferably comprises polyester un-woven fiber impregnated with lithium chloride extends over the room air passage and the regenerative air passage with its side walls in a horizontal direction. The rotary latent heat exchanger is located on the downflow side of the regenerative inlet. There is further provided a rotary sensible heat exchanger disposed on the downflow side of the rotary latent heat exchanger in the room air passage and extending over the room air passage and the outside air passage with its side walls disposed in a horizontal direction and being in communication with the outside air outlet. A first rotary filter type humidifier is disposed on the downflow side of the rotary sensible heat exchanger and in the neighborhood of the room air outlet, while a second rotary filter type humidifier is disposed in the outside air passage and in the neighborhood of the outside air inlet. An outside air blower unit is disposed on the downflow side of the second rotary filter type humidifier in the outside air passage and a regenerative air blow unit is disposed on the downflow side of the rotary latent heat exchanger in the regenerative air passage and in the neighborhood of the regenerative air outlet.
Abstract:
A transfer wheel assembly and a method for making the transfer wheel assembly is provided. The transfer wheel assembly is of the type for use in air conditioning systems for conditioning air flowing through an air conduit in response to the condition of air flowing through an adjacent air passage. The transfer wheel is conveniently constructed by having a central hub and a plurality of radially extending blades connected to the hub and extending radially outwardly. A plurality of condition transfer medium sectors are supported by the blades, the sectors each being pervious to axial flow of a gaseous medium and being capable of providing a condition transfer between itself and a gaseous medium flowing therethrough. The transfer wheel assemblies are conveniently assembled by cementing one radial edge of the sectors to a radial face of a supporting blade. The radially inner ends of the supporting blades are then joined to the central hub such that the sectors and supporting plates form a transfer wheel. The radially extending blades provide structural rigidity or reinforcement of the transfer medium sectors and also locate the sector radially and provide a convenient means for supporting the sectors in the transfer wheel assembly.
Abstract:
Efficiency of an open-cycle air conditioning apparatus and method for heating and cooling is improved and the economy of external power is increased both with respect to cost and energy consumption by providing a combination of a primary heater and a secondary heater for heating the regeneration stream for regenerating the desiccant means in the air conditioning apparatus. The thermal source for the primary heater may utilize waste heat or solar energy which is transferred to a solid phase thermal storage means by a gaseous phase heat exchange medium. The thermal energy may be transferred from the thermal storage means to the regeneration stream of the open-cycle air conditioning apparatus either directly by passing the air stream over the solid phase thermal storage means or indirectly by passing liquid in an enclosed system through the solid phase thermal storage means and the regeneration stream.
Abstract:
A solid adsorption air conditioning apparatus for cooling and heating which is compact in size and particularly adapted to low capacity and which may be at least partially solar powered and air cooled. The apparatus utilizes water vapor as refrigerant working within a hermetically sealed module. The hermetically sealed module has opposing thermally conductive walls which are internally coated with water vapor adsorbent material and thermally insulated from each other. The water vapor working fluid is desorbed from the adsorbent on the interior of a first side by heating while removing heat from the opposing second side causing the working fluid to adsorb in a condenser function at the second side and then applying heat to the second side while removing heat from the first side causing the working fluid to desorb from the second side and adsorb at the first side functioning as an adsorber while the second side is functioning as an evaporator and recycling said thermal condition sequence to provide desired conditioning to an air conditioned space.
Abstract:
A method of producing a sorption body is disclosed in which a plurality of sheets of asbestos paper are formed from a fiber pulp having molecular sieves placed therein. The sheets are arranged in contact with one another at spaced points to form transectional channels therebetween for the media which are to pass through the body, with the sheets supporting each other. The assembled sheets are subjected to an increase in temperature sufficient to drive off the organic binding agents present in the paper and to break down the asbestos fiber to a powdery consistency.
Abstract:
A process for air cleaning by the removal of water and one or more undesirable gases such as NO.sub.x, SO.sub.x and CO.sub.2 by a continuous atmospheric pressure and low pressure drop system wherein the adsorbent body is a wheel of thin sheets or layers of fibrous material containing about 10 to 90% by weight of a finely divided crystalline molecular sieve material. The process is especially useful for the removal of NO.sub.2 from confined areas.