Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 8, Issue 24, Pages 15778-15787Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b03006
Keywords
membrane-based desiccant fiber; vacuum desiccant cooling; hollow fiber membrane; hybrid desiccant; heat and mass transfer; vapor absorption
Ask authors/readers for more resources
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.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available