IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/energy/v19y1994i11p1165-1179.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The influence of altitude on the performance of desiccant-cooling systems

Author

Listed:
  • Pesaran, Ahmad A.
  • Heiden, Rick

Abstract

The impact of height above sea level (i.e. ambient pressure) on the performance of the ventilation cycle desiccant-cooling system and its components has been studied using computer simulations. The impact of ambient pressure depends on whether the system was designed for fixed-mass flow rate or fixed-volume flow rate operation. As the ambient pressure is decreased from 1.0 to 0.8 atm, the system thermal coefficient of performance increases by 8% for both fixed-mass and fixed-volume flow rate; the cooling capacity of the system is decreased by 14% for the fixed-volume flow rate system and increased by 7% for the fixed-mass flow rate system. The electric power requirements for the system with fixed-volume flow rate did not change; for the fixed-mass flow rate system, it increased by 44%. The overall coefficient of performance increased up to 5% for the fixed-volume flow rate system and decreased up to 4% for the fixed-mass flow rate system.

Suggested Citation

  • Pesaran, Ahmad A. & Heiden, Rick, 1994. "The influence of altitude on the performance of desiccant-cooling systems," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 19(11), pages 1165-1179.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:19:y:1994:i:11:p:1165-1179
    DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(94)90073-6
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0360544294900736
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/0360-5442(94)90073-6?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:19:y:1994:i:11:p:1165-1179. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/energy .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.