Solid Desiccant Cooling System Employed with Ventilation Cycle: A Sensitivity Analysis

For better use of evaporative cooling techniques in humid climate, employment of desiccant cooling system (DCS) can be a suitable option. Desiccant augmented evaporative cooling system may be employed for energy saving in buildings in place of conventional vapour compression based cooling system. This article presents a sensitive analysis of DCS simulated under the humid climate of Mumbai, India. Mathematical computations have been performed using outdoor specific humidity, ambient dry bulb temperature and room supply temperature. A sensitive analysis considering some important forcing parameters was conducted. It was observed that the “effectiveness” of direct evaporative cooler to be predominantly high influencing parameter compared to others, for the performance of DCS.