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Engine-driven hybrid air-conditioning system

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  • 1.Mechanical Engineering School, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China; 2.Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg 21073, Germany;

Published date: 05 Mar 2009

Abstract

A hybrid air-conditioning system that combines an engine-driven chiller with desiccant dehumidification was configured and experimentally tested to provide reliable data for energy consumption and operation cost. The engine performance and the desiccant wheel performance were measured and a numeric model previously set up for dehumidification capacity prediction was validated. For a reference building, the results based upon measured data show that under present electricity/gas price ratio, more than 40% of operation cost can be saved by the hybrid system.

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Chaokui QIN , Hongmei LU , Xiong LIU , Gerhard SCHMITZ , . Engine-driven hybrid air-conditioning system[J]. Frontiers in Energy, 2009 , 3(1) : 109 -116 . DOI: 10.1007/s11708-009-0003-3

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