固體乾燥劑冷卻系統被認為是消耗大量能量的常規空調系統的替代品。在乾燥劑輪和冷卻盤管中，潛在和敏感的負載分開處理和更有效地處理。在本文中，分析了典型固體乾燥劑系統的性能，並與混合固體乾燥劑蒸汽壓縮空調系統和使用熱輪的混合乾燥劑冷卻系統進行了比較。在春季和夏季，台灣台中典型的炎熱潮濕的天氣分析了該系統。混合乾燥劑系統使用冷凝器的餘熱用於乾燥劑輪的再生過程，以去除乾燥劑材料的水分。結果表明，混合乾燥劑冷卻系統具有較高的冷卻能力，COP高於典型的冷卻系統。但混合乾燥劑冷卻與熱輪COP相比略高於混合乾燥劑冷卻。更高的室外溫濕度比可以獲得更好的干燥劑冷卻性能。但如果室外溫度非常高，系統的性能正在下降。這些結果證實混合乾燥劑冷卻系統對於炎熱潮濕的天氣條件是可行的。

Solid desiccant cooling system is considered as alternative to the conventional air conditioning system which consume lot of energy. The latent and sensible loads are handled separately and more effectively in desiccant wheel and cooling coil. In this paper, performance of typical solid desiccant system has been analyzed then compared with hybrid solid desiccant vapor compression air-conditioning system and hybrid desiccant cooling system using thermal wheel. This system has been analyzed at typical hot and humid weather of Taichung, Taiwan during spring and summer season. Hybrid desiccant system use waste heat from condenser for regeneration process at desiccant wheel to removes the moisture at desiccant material. The results show that hybrid desiccant cooling system has higher cooling capacity and its COP higher than typical cooling system. But hybrid desiccant cooling with thermal wheel COP is slightly higher than hybrid desiccant cooling. Higher outdoor temperature and humidity ratio leads to a better desiccant cooling performance. But if the outdoor temperature is very hot, the performance of the system is decreasing. These results confirm that hybrid desiccant cooling system is feasible for hot and humid weather conditions.

ABSTRACT i
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ii
TABLE OF CONTENTS v
TABLE OF FIGURES viii
TABLE OF TABLES xi
NOMENCLATURE xii
1. INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Research Background 1
1.2 Literature Review for Desiccant Cooling Systems 5
1.3 Work Involved in this thesis 11
2. LITERATURE REVIEW OF HEAT MASS EXCHANGERS AND DESICCANT COOLING SYSTEMS 14
2.1 Consideration for Improving System Performance with Heat Recovery System 14
2.2 Enthalpy Heat Exchanger 14
2.3 Desiccant dehumidifiers 17
2.3.1 Solid Desiccant 19
2.3.2 Liquid Desiccants 22
2.3.3 Comparison between Solid and Liquid Desiccant 23
2.3.4 Heat Source for Regeneration Process 25
2.4 Methods of Dehumidification 27
2.4.1 Mechanical Dehumidifiers 28
2.4.2 Conventional Desiccant System 31
2.4.3 Hybrid Systems 32
3. EXPERIMENTAL SETUP AND SYSTEM WORK PRINCIPAL 34
3.1 Experimental Setup 34
3.1.1 Experimental Site and Time 34
3.2.1 Methods and Experimental Procedures 38
3.2.3 Measuring Instruments 43
3.2 Desiccant Cooling Model Description 45
3.2.1. Typical Desiccant Cooling System 47
3.2.2 Hybrid Desiccant Cooling with Vapor Compression System 48
3.2.3 Hybrid Desiccant Cooling System with Thermal Wheel 49
3.3 Performance Indicator 51
4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 55
4.1 Performance of Desiccant Cooling System in the Spring Season 55
4.1.1 Comparison of Performance on Typical and Hybrid Desiccant Cooling System 55
4.1.2 Hybrid Desiccant Cooling System Performance 57
4.1.3 Effect of Ambient Conditions on COP of Hybrid Desiccant Cooling System in Spring Season 60
4.1.4 Sensible and Latent Heat Gains in Hybrid Desiccant Cooling Systems in Spring Season 63
4.2 Performance of Desiccant Cooling System in Summer Season 65
4.2.1 Comparison of Performance on Various Desiccants Cooling System 65
4.2.2 Temperature and Humidity Ratio Analysis for Different Dehumidification Cooling Systems 67
4.2.3 Comparison of energy consumption and cooling capacity on typical DCS, DCS hybrid, and hybrid DCS with thermal wheel in summer season 72
4.2.4 Effect of Ambient Conditions on COP of Three Different Systems in Summer Season 76
4.2.5 Sensible and Latent Heat Gains in Hybrid Desiccant Cooling Systems in Summer Season 81
5. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 86
5.1 Conclusions 86
5.2 Recommendations 88
REFFERENCES 89

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