Experimental investigation to optimise a desiccant HVAC system coupled to a small size cogenerator

Giovanni Angrisani , Francesco Minichiello , Carlo Roselli , Maurizio Sasso

In the Mediterranean area, the increasing demand of summer cooling in residential and tertiary sectors is usually satisfied by electrically-driven units; this often determines electric load peaks and black-outs. Thus, a wide interest is spreading in small scale natural gas-fired polygeneration systems: a prime mover drives (mechanically, electrically, thermally) electric generators and/or heat pumps, desiccant wheels, etc., matching thermal (heating and cooling) and electric end-user requirements.

Mots clés: decentralized polygeneration; Micro-CCHP; desiccant wheel; hybrid HVAC system; experimental analysis

Domaines: Thermique [physics.class-ph]; Thermique [physics.class-ph]

Giovanni Angrisani, Francesco Minichiello, Carlo Roselli, Maurizio Sasso. Experimental investigation to optimise a desiccant HVAC system coupled to a small size cogenerator. Applied Thermal Engineering, 2010, 31 (4), pp.506. ⟨10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2010.10.006⟩. ⟨hal-00699053⟩