TY  - JOUR
SP  - 696
TI  - Integration of solar assisted solid desiccant cooling system with efficient evaporative cooling technique for separate load handling
N1  - cited By 53
AV  - none
EP  - 706
PB  - Elsevier Ltd
SN  - 13594311
ID  - scholars10117
KW  - Air conditioning; Driers (materials); Evaporation; Evaporative cooling systems; Humidity control; Solar energy; Thermoelectric equipment; Waste heat
KW  -  Desiccant integrated M cycle; Evaporative cooling; Evaporative cooling techniques; Integrated cooling systems; Performance limitations; Solar air-conditioning; Solar assisted cooling; Solar thermal collector
KW  -  Cooling
N2  - Air-conditioning load is generally composed of sensible and latent parts. Currently, various stand-alone electric and heat driven HVAC systems serve the purpose with each having performance limitations while managing cumulative load. However, integration of both electric and heat driven systems can be efficient especially if sensible and latent loads are handled separately. Here an integrated solar assisted cooling system is proposed consisting of a solid desiccant system for handling latent load and a Maisotsenko cycle (MC) based evaporative cooling system for sensible loads. The experimental setup consists of a purposely designed hybrid arrays of solar thermal collectors, a solid desiccant wheel with heat recovery and a coupled indirect MC evaporative cooler in cross flow arrangement. The integrated system is tested for the dehumidification effectiveness, dew point effectiveness, thermal COP, and cooling capacity. The resulted average cooling capacity of the system is around 3.78 kW with average COP of 0.91 at solar fraction of about 70. The uncertainties for cooling capacity and COP are ±8.6 and ±9.3, respectively. © 2018 Elsevier Ltd
VL  - 140
A1  - Qadar Chaudhary, G.
A1  - Ali, M.
A1  - Sheikh, N.A.
A1  - Gilani, S.I.U.H.
A1  - Khushnood, S.
JF  - Applied Thermal Engineering
UR  - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85047517167&doi=10.1016%2fj.applthermaleng.2018.05.081&partnerID=40&md5=df8822cc1d1cf5b3cf94e42b8efe16ee
Y1  - 2018///
ER  -