Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 29, 2016 - July 01, 2016
Adsorption desiccant rotor driven by humidity swing operation simultaneously produces dry and warm air. This study aims to apply the desiccant dehumidification and heating to agricultural fields. This paper reports influences of desiccant properties on the adsorption outlet air condition at some different operating conditions. It was found that there were optimum values of the wheel rotation speed at which the temperature rise became the largest. However, regeneration air temperature strongly affected on the adsorption outlet air temperature since the cooled rotor during regeneration step absorbed heat of adsorption which is generated at the beginning of the adsorption zone. Excluding of this low temperature air is one solution to obtain higher temperature of process outlet air when the regeneration air temperature is low.
