Optimizing Industrial Desiccation

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Motivation: the use of desiccants to dry air using waste heat is becoming very popular. It is both energy efficient and a valuable use of low grade waste heat especially during the summertime. None of the current devices, with either wheels or towers, use any feedback loops to optimize performance

Approach: a laboratory test stand has been developed to observe and optimize the performance of desiccant wheels using newly developed temperature and relative humidity sensors to both learn details about the adsorption processes and determine the potential benefits of developing "smart" systems.

Fundamental Issues: success requires modeling of adsorption and absorption processes in unsteady flows



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