Exergy analysis of flow dehumidification by solid desiccants

Energy

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 915-931

  Lior, Noam ^a   Al Sharqawi, Hassan S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Medina College of Technology   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ENERGY ABSORPTION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; EXERGY; HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

DEHUMIDIFICATION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; HUMID AIR; SOLID DESICCANTS; TURBULENCE INTENSITY;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

DEHUMIDIFICATION; DESICCATION; DRYING; EXERGY; FLOW OVER SURFACE;

EID: 9444269190     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2004.04.029     Document Type: Article

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