Desiccant wheel thermal performance modeling for indoor humidity optimal control

Applied Energy

Volumn 112, Issue , 2013, Pages 999-1005

  Wang, Nan ^a   Zhang, Jiangfeng ^a   Xia, Xiaohua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Desiccant wheel; Humidity control; Model predictive control

Indexed keywords

DRIERS (MATERIALS); ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HUMIDITY CONTROL; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; OFFICE BUILDINGS; THERMAL COMFORT;

COMMERCIAL BUILDING; DESICCANT WHEELS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS; INDOOR COMFORTS; INDOOR HUMIDITIES; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; OPTIMAL OPERATION; THERMAL PERFORMANCE;

PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

BUILDING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HUMIDITY; INDOOR AIR; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 84884287700     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.03.060     Document Type: Article

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