Study of a compact spiral-coil cooling and dehumidifying heat exchanger

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 777-790

  Ho, J C ^a   Wijeysundera, N E ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cooling; Dehumidification; Heat exchanger; Spiral coil

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COOLING; ENTHALPY; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PERFORMANCE; PRANDTL NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPECIFIC HEAT; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

AIR HANDLER UNIT DESIGN; AIR MASS VELOCITY; COMPACT SPIRAL COIL COOLING; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; DEHUMIDIFICATION; ENTHALPY EFFECTIVENESS; ENTHALPY OF VAPORIZATION; FINNED TUBES; LEWIS NUMBER; MASS TRANSFER COEFFICIENT;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 0030269114     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1359-4311(96)00002-6     Document Type: Article

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