Abstract:
A process and apparatus for the dehumidification and VOC odor remediation of an air stream withdrawn from the passenger compartment of a transportation vehicle is disclosed which employs a continuously rotating wheel support and adsorbent selective for the adsorption of water and VOCs. The wheel is coated with zeolite adsorbent selected from the group consisting of zeolite Y-74, zeolite Y-84, zeolite Y-85, a low cerium rare earth exchanged zeolite Y-84, a rare earth exchanged zeolite LZ-210 and mixtures thereof. A surprisingly significant increase in the thermal efficiency is possible as a result of the lower regeneration temperature of the adsorbent and the use of novel process steps.
Abstract:
A high performance, low cost, regenerator/heat exchanger matrix or bed. The bed consists of numerous stretched elastomer sheets separated by spacers and stacked. The resulting matrix is of the parallel plate type with high porosity, and narrow, uniform, unobstructed channels. The bed is ideal for near room temperature regenerator applications. The bed may also be used to pump heat or refrigerate, when fitted with a mechanism which allows the stretch of the elastomer sheets to be rapidly increased and decreased periodically.
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:
An apparatus for heating and/or cooling a cabin, especially a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, a sleeping cabin of a truck, or the like. To the cabin there is respectively connected an intake-air duct and a waste-air duct. The apparatus includes a sorption reactor which is filled with zeolite, or the like, and through which an air-current flows via corresponding ducts. In the adsorption phase of the reactor, the air-current takes up adsorption heat and releases moisture. After being cooled down via a humidifier, the air-current cools the intake-air current to the cabin. In addition, a heating device is provided for heating up the air current for the desorption of the reactor, the heated air current being evacuated with the moisture taken up from the sorbent. In order to provide sufficient heating capacity, even at low external temperatures, without placing a load upon the sorption reactor, the air current is selectively made to flow through the heating device into either a duct to the reactor or directly as a heating-air current to the cabin via an air current control element.
Abstract:
A dehumidifier unit for pre-conditioning air delivered to a multiplicity of separate refrigeration air conditioner units and especially ductless systems where the compressor-condenser unit is separate from the fan-coil unit, and assisted by heat pipe transfer of heat from air dehumidified through a desiccant wheel and by heat of compression from the condenser of one compressor-condenser unit, and with a heater to maintain the temperature of regeneration air through the wheel, one dehumidifier unit pre-conditioning air for a multiplicity of refrigeration air conditioners or fan-coil units.
Abstract:
A gas dehumidifying apparatus including a dehumidifier rotor wherein the rotor is of a composite construction which is compatible with both high humidity and low humidity conditions and in which proper temperature conditions can be obtained in connection with the regeneration of the adsorbent to thereby improve the adsorption performance of the rotor. The apparatus exhibits improved dehumidification efficiency and thus can provide treated gas with a dryness level higher than conventionally attainable.
Abstract:
Air conditioning apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a plurality of air outlets, refrigeration apparatus operable to make ice by pumping heat from water to a heat sink and to store the ice, a coil for dehumidifying outside air or a mixture of outside air and return air, means for causing air to be dehumidified to flow in heat transfer relationship with the coil, means for circulating dehumidified air to the air outlets, means operable to control the moisture content and temperature of the dehumidified air, means operable to control the rates at which dehumidified air is delivered by the air outlets to the spaces they serve to ones not less than the predetermined minimum rate, and means for controlling the temperature of the air delivered to the air outlets to maintain the temperature of the spaces within control limits. Each of the air outlets is operable to deliver air to a space to be conditioned. The apparatus also includes means for circulating a low temperature heat transfer fluid through the coil, the circulating means including means for transferring heat from the heat transfer fluid to ice made and stored by the means operable to make and store ice. The apparatus is operable to deliver air to the outlets at a rate per unit of area in the spaces served by the air outlets which varies between a predetermined minimum rate greater than zero and a maximum rate, the maximum rate being substantially less than that which would be required to maintain the design temperature in each of the spaces at the maximum design cooling load with air supplied to the space at a dry bulb temperature of 55.degree. F. The transfer of heat from the coil is controlled so that the dehumidified air is incapable, at the rate at which it is required for humidity control, of maintaining the desired space temperature at the maximum design cooling load. In a preferred embodiment, the means for controlling the temperature of the air delivered to the air outlets includes means for transferring heat from air that has not yet flowed in heat transfer relationship with the coil to air that has flowed in heat transfer relationship with the coil.
Abstract:
The present invention describes a method and apparatus for conditioning air utilizing a desiccant based air conditioning system requiring substantially less regeneration energy than typical systems. This regeneration energy reduction is accomplished through the use of two separate desiccant devices and an indirect evaporative cooler having both a wet and dry side for air flow-through. The first desiccant device regeneration air is first passed through the wet side of the indirect evaporative cooler wherein it is humidified and heated. This air is then dehumidified by passing through the second desiccant device which operates at a high moisture content. This results in a substantial amount of moisture being absorbed from the first regeneration air stream causing a substantial air temperature increase and thereby, reducing the auxiliary heat required. The second desiccant device may be regenerated with ambient air.
Abstract:
A sensible and latent heat exchange media comprises a gas permeable matrix. The gas permeable matrix provides passageways therethrough through which an air stream can flow through the sensible and latent heat exchange media. The gas permeable matrix is formed of a sensible heat exchange material that is capable of absorbing sensible heat from a warm air stream and releasing the absorbed sensible heat into a cool air stream as the air streams flow through the sensible and latent heat exchange media. A layer of a coating composition comprising a molecular sieve is applied to at least a portion of the surface of the sensible heat exchange material. The molecular sieve has a plurality of pores of a substantially uniform size such that the molecular sieve is capable of adsorbing moisture from a humid air stream flowing through the sensible and latent heat exchange media, and is capable of releasing the adsorbed moisture into a dry air stream flowing through the sensible and latent heat exchange media, but is not capable of adsorbing contaminants from either of the air streams. The sensible and latent heat exchange media is extremely efficient in transferring both sensible and latent heat between air streams.
Abstract:
Disclosed are improved recirculating sorption bed systems, e.g., rotary beds, of the type consisting of a mass of sorbent material in which one section is in sorption duty while another section is being regenerated thermally. The sorption beds may be operated to reduce heat consumption while simultaneously producing a more sorbate-free product by utilizing sensible heat added to the bed during regeneration to supply a portion of the heat or desorption required to reactivate the bed. In one embodiment, the bed system features a recirculation loop which circulates fluid between a pair of regions interposed between the edge of the sorption duty and regeneration regions. In other embodiments the bed system includes means for directing a portion of the effluent generated in early stages of the sorption duty region to supplement hot regenerant in the regeneration region and/or includes means for directing effluent generated in early stages of the regeneration region to supplement the feed in late stages of the sorption duty region.