Experimental and numerical investigations on the performance of dehumidifying desiccant beds composed of silica-gel and thermal energy storage particles

Heat and Mass Transfer/Waerme- und Stoffuebertragung

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 545-561

  Rady, M A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b Benha University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; COLLOIDS; COOLING; ENERGY STORAGE; FLYWHEELS; GELATION; GELS; HEAT STORAGE; HUMIDITY CONTROL; LATENT HEAT; MASS TRANSFER; MOISTURE; MOISTURE CONTROL; OXIDES; PACKED BEDS; SILICA; SILICA GEL; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

ADSORPTION COLUMNS; ADSORPTION HEATS; ADSORPTION PROCESS; AIR FLOWS; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; COOLING CAPACITIES; CYCLE OPERATIONS; DESICCANT COOLING SYSTEMS; ENHANCED EFFICIENCIES; GAS PHASIS; GRANULAR BEDS; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFERS; HEAT AND MOISTURE TRANSFERS; HOMOGENEOUS MIXTURES; IN-SITU; KEY ELEMENTS; LATENT HEAT STORAGES; NON EQUILIBRIUMS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PACKED BED; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; THERMAL ENERGY STORAGES; VOLUME RATIOS;

COOLING SYSTEMS;

EID: 59449090716     PISSN: 09477411     EISSN: 14321181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00231-008-0459-4     Document Type: Article

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