Membrane Dehumidification and Cooling: Fundamentals and Applications

Membrane Dehumidification and Cooling: Fundamentals and Applications presents the state-of-the-art membrane dehumidifiers, highlights their most recent advancements, and provides key insights into global R&D interests. With a strong focus on applications, the book offers characterization techniques to evaluate the potential of hygroscopic materials, as well as experimental methods to study the dehumidifiers' performance.The book begins by highlighting the demerits of conventional cooling systems, and then reviews electrically driven alternative cooling solutions. A comparative study between different dehumidification techniques will also be given. Subsequent chapters cover fundamental transport mechanisms and thermodynamic modelling, followed by experimental and theoretical performance evaluations of different membrane configurations. Finally, scaling, heat transfer, and thermodynamic analysis are presented, along with a review of hybrid membrane-based air-conditioners. Membrane Dehumidification and Cooling: Fundamentals and Applications is a one-stop resource for the recent advancements of membrane dehumidification and cooling applications. It is an essential read for students, researchers and engineers interested in thermal engineering, heat and mass transfer, alternative cooling, energy materials and dehumidification. Presents the fundamental aspects and applications of the latest membrane dehumidification technologies Comprehensively emphasizes new energy materials, experimental techniques, numerical methods, and thermal evaluation frameworks Focuses on the feasibility of membrane dehumidifiers in next generation of hybrid cooling systems INDICE: 1. Introduction2. Fundamental transport mechanisms and thermodynamic modelling3. Hygroscopic materials and characterization techniques4. Experimental and Theoretical performance evaluation of different membrane configurations5. Scaling, heat transfer, and thermodynamic analysis of membrane dehumidifiers6. Hybrid membrane-based air-conditioners

• ISBN: 978-0-323-95529-4
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 250
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2023
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés