Heat mass transfer model of a honeycombed rotary desiccant wheel and experiment

Jixie Gongcheng Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 82-87

  Zhang, Xuejun ^a   Dai, Yanjun ^a   Wang, Ruzhu ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Heat and mass transfer; Mathematic model; Rotary desiccant wheel

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; HUMIDITY CONTROL; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE; WHEELS;

AIR HUMIDITY RATIO; OPERATING PARAMETERS; ROTARY DESICCANT WHEEL;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 15744366150     PISSN: 05776686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3901/jme.2005.01.082     Document Type: Article

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