Development of Membrane-Based Desiccant Fiber for Vacuum Desiccant Cooling

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• 作者：Yifan Yang ; Dipak Rana ; Christopher Q. Lan ; Takeshi Matsuura
• 刊名：ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：June 22, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：8
• 期：24
• 页码：15778-15787
• 全文大小：571K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1944-8252

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A novel hydrophobic membrane-based desiccant fiber (MDF) was developed by loading lithium chloride into hydrophobic hollow fiber membranes. The MDF thus made was then tested for vapor absorption under controlled conditions. Furthermore, an MDF pad, which was made by weaving MDF into a piece of garment, was built into a laboratory vacuum desiccant cooling (VDC) setup, which included the MDF pad as the desiccant layer and a cooling towel saturated with water as the water reservoir, to test the cooling effects at atmospheric pressure and vacuum of 25 in. of Hg. Results indicate that MDF is suitable for applications such as in VDC. Mass and heat transfer of vapor absorption by MDF were also analyzed.