Abstract:
An improved adsorbent composition for a natural gas-fired, adsorption cooling system that readily adsorbs moisture from ambient air, while being readily regenerated at high temperatures up to 200.degree.-300.degree. C. in order to provide an enhanced coefficient of performance to the system. Such an adsorbent composition may comprise an A-type zeolite, an X-type zeolite or a chemically modified Y-type zeolite either alone, in conjunction with each other or in conjunction with alumina and/or silica gel. A rotating adsorbent wheel may be fashioned from corrugated paper comprising the adsorbent composition and a slurry of synthetic, organic fibers which are preferably polyaramid fibers. The strength of the wheel may be enhanced by surface treating it with sols or salt solutions of alumina or silica, and a highly temperature-stable epoxy or phenolic resin.
Abstract:
A desiccant assisted system for dehumidification and cooling of an enclosed space comprising a rotatable desiccant wheel and a rotatable heat exchange wheel. A first path for process air extends from an exit of the enclosed space to be conditioned in series through a first zone of the rotatable desiccant wheel, a first zone of the rotatable heat exchange wheel and an entrance to the enclosed space. A second path for regenerative air extends from an entrance to ambient air outside the enclosed space in series through a second zone of the rotatable heat exchange wheel, a second zone of the rotatable desiccant wheel and an exit back to ambient air outside the enclosed space. Condenser coil(s) are provided along the second, regeneration air path between the rotatable wheels. A compressor is provided and a first process evaporator is coupled with the compressor and located along the first path. A second process evaporator located in series along the first path between the first process evaporator and the entrance to the enclosed space. A condenser is coupled with the compressor and located along the second path between the rotatable wheels. A recovery evaporator is also coupled with the compressor and located in series along the second path.
Abstract:
A desiccant cooling apparatus and process using a solid adsorbent and refrigerant wherein the solid adsorbent is selected from the group consisting of zeolite Y-85, a low cerium rare earth exchanged Y-84 and a rare earth exchanged LZ-210, and the adsorbent is bonded directly to the heat exchange tubes within the device by a novel slip coating process resulted in significant improvements in thermal efficiency and overall performance.
Abstract:
Desiccant-coated substrates, regeneratable rotary dehumidification wheels and other devices for gas (e.g., air) treatment using those substrates, and processes for making them are disclosed. The substrates may have coatings in thicknesses of from about 2 to about 10 mils containing particles of one or more adsorbent desiccants and an organic water-based binder. The desiccant particles retain a high fraction of their original adsorption capacity because the pores of the desiccant particles contain a pore-clearing agent prior to the binder setting and the pore-clearing agent leaves the pores during the manufacturing process to prevent the binder from blocking the pores. In preferred embodiments a mixture of different desiccants is used and a particle suspending agent keeps the particles well-mixed so that the desiccant particles in the coated substrate will be as well-mixed as possible. The suspending agent may also function as the pore-clearing agent. A pH-adjusting agent may be used to control the pH of the coating if the binder or another constituent of the coating is pH-sensitive.
Abstract:
A liquid glycol enhanced with a polymer-salt solution such as a desiccant in an air pre-conditioner system with 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, 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, a desuperheater for efficient refrigerant compression, a reflux boiler for desiccant regeneration, and a glycol interchanger recovery system for desiccant recovery.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method of adsorbing and removing NOx, by washing with water a gas discharged by ventilation from highway tunnels in a washing tower as pretreatment, and then adsorbing NOx in the gas with a rotary NOx adsorption unit. The washed gas may be heated by a heater which is placed between the washing tower and the rotary NOx adsorption unit.
Abstract:
The humidity exchanger medium is manufactured by forming a laminate of (i) a corrugated sheet and (ii) a flat sheet bonded to points of contact of a ridged surface of the corrugated sheet, the laminate having been impregnated with sodium silicate waterglass and then partially dried, each corrugated and flat sheet constituted of a paper of inorganic fibers; forming a honeycomb matrix from at least one laminate; soaking the honeycomb matrix in an acidic solution containing at least a titanium inorganic salt to convert the sodium silicate waterglass to a titanium-containing silicate hydrogel; and washing and drying the honeycomb matrix to convert the titanium-containing silicate hydrogel to a titanium-containing silicate aerogel.
Abstract:
A gas adsorbing element is formed into a honeycomb-shaped laminate having many small channels penetrating from one end surface to the other and in which hydrophobic high silica zeolite powder is exposed on the walls of the small channels. The hydrophobic high silica zeolite is, for example, a zeolite which is produced by removing most of the aluminum component from an ordinary zeolite. In forming the honeycomb-shaped laminate, it is favorable that non-flammable sheets are laminated and the laminate is impregnated with a dispersion of high silica zeolite powder and with an inorganic binder, and that the high silica zeolite powder is fixed in fiber gaps and on the surface of the non-flammable paper. It is desirable that the non-flammable sheet is a low density inorganic fiber paper and is baked either before or after forming the honeycomb-shaped laminate. This element adsorbs little water vapor even when the process air is highly humid, and is able to adsorb and remove organic solvent vapor and bad odor material in the air with high efficiency.
Abstract:
A heating and ventilation unit has a ceramic heat wheel rotatable within a housing between first and second plenums through which fresh and stale air, respectively, are forced to pass in a hot air ventilation system. The heat wheel is made of cordierite material such as is used in catalytic conversion systems for automobiles. It is formed with non-communicating and axially-extending parallel pores having a pore density of 62 pores per sq. cm. As it rotates the heat wheel transfers to the fresh air both the heat generated by a gas burner in the second plenum, and also low grate heat contained in the stale air. The burner is housed within a combustion housing by means of which the combustion gases are confined to a generally D-shaped area of the heat wheel. The combustion housing is spaced from the walls of the second plenum to form an annular passage through which unheated stale air passes to cool the walls of the second plenum and purge any combustion gases from the pores of the heat wheel entering the first plenum. Humidification of the fresh air may be achieved by water sprayed onto the upstream surface of the heat wheel in the first plenum.
Abstract:
A dehumidifier for flexible envelopes having a process side for dehumidifying air from the flexible envelope and a regeneration side for regenerating the dessicant used for dehumidification. A regeneration wheel containing a dessicant is rotatably mounted in a slot between the process and the regeneration compartments so that a first section of the wheel extends into the process compartment and a second section of the wheel extends into the regeneration compartment. The process and regeneration compartments are further divided by a plurality of partitions transverse to the wall forming the regeneration and process compartments. A stream of air is generated in the process compartment by means of a blower wheel which is driven by a motor in the lower regeneration compartment. The static pressure in the lower process compartment is slightly lower than the pressure in the lower regeneration compartment, thereby preventing migration of flammable gases to electrical parts in the lower regeneration compartment. The pressure differential is reversed, however, in the upper regeneration and process compartments so that the static pressure in the process compartment is slightly higher than in the regeneration compartment, thereby preventing migration of moist air into the process side of the compartment after the process air has been dehumidified.