Abstract

Desiccant-coated heat exchangers (DCHEs) in air conditioning offer advantages like independent temperature and humidity control, reduced energy consumption, and high performance. However, the availability of desiccants with high water adsorption and low thermal energy requirements is limited. The present study proposes that aluminum fumarate (Al-Fum) MOF-coated heat exchangers will outperform conventional desiccants, especially at low regeneration temperatures (around 50°C). In order to evaluate this hypothesis, the performance of DCHEs was evaluated with a validated analytical model for different solid desiccant coatings: silica gel, zeolite, and Al-Fum MOF. Water vapor sorption characteristics, heat and mass transfer, and adsorption and desorption capacities were determined. The results showed that the Al-Fum MOF-coated heat exchanger outperformed silica gel and zeolite at low regeneration temperatures under adiabatic conditions. The MOF exhibited superior water uptake capacity (0.39 g/g) between 20% and 80% RH compared to the other studied conventional desiccants. Moreover, the MOF achieved the lowest outlet air temperature. At 19.5 g/kgda, the MOF demonstrated higher adsorption rates (4 % and 0.3 %) than zeolite and silica gel. These findings highlight the potential of Al-Fum MOFs as energy-efficient solutions for controlling indoor air humidity, particularly for latent-sensible heat separation systems with conventional vapor compression bus air-conditioning systems.

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