Studying the performance of a liquid desiccant indirect evaporative cooling system

A liquid desiccant-indirect evaporative cooling (LD-IEC) system has been proposed. The design is able to dehumidify and cool the product air simultaneously in one unit. A computational model has been developed to determine the performance of the heat and mass transfer process. The validation of the model demonstrated good agreement with the experimental data to within 10%. The detailed air treatment process has been theoretically studied. The thermal performance of the LD-IEC has been evaluated. Simulation results showed that the outlet temperature and humidity ratio were influenced by the liquid desiccant film length, intake air temperature, and intake air humidity ratio. For a specific inlet temperature and humidity ratio condition, a desired outlet condition can be obtained by adjusting the length of the liquid desiccant film.