Analytical modeling of a bubble column dehumidifier

ASME 2013 Heat Transfer Summer Conf. Collocated with the ASME 2013 7th Int. Conf. on Energy Sustainability and the ASME 2013 11th Int. Conf. on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, HT 2013

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Tow, Emily W ^a   Lienhard, John H ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE COLUMNS; DESALINATION; FUEL CELLS; HEAT TRANSFER; HUMIDITY CONTROL; LIQUIDS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THERMAL LOGGING; WATER FILTRATION;

ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; HUMIDIFICATION-DEHUMIDIFICATION; INDUSTRIAL WATER; LIQUID TEMPERATURE; LOG-MEAN TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; MASS EXCHANGERS; MEAN TEMPERATURE;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 84892970797     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/HT2013-17763     Document Type: Conference Paper

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