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Numerical study on adsorption enhancement of rectangular adsorption bed

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The present paper has dealt with the one-sidewall cooling effect of spherical adsorbent particles packed in a rectangular bed on water vapor adsorption characteristics by a 2-dimensional numerical analysis. The analysis model was considered that one-sidewall of a rectangular packed bed with homogeneous spherical silica gel particles was cooled and another walls were adiabatic. The moist air flowed into the rectangular adsorption bed packed with spherical adsorbent particles. Fuji Sylsia silica gel B was selected as a suitable adsorbent with high adsorption ability over high relative humidity. Numerical results revealed the effects of moist air inlet humidity, airflow velocity, size of spherical silica gel particles, width of the rectangular packed bed, and the side-wall cooling temperature on the amount of water vapor adsorption.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushimanaka, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan

    H. Inaba & A. Horibe

  2. Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushimanaka, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan

    J. K. Seo

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Inaba, H., Seo, J.K. & Horibe, A. Numerical study on adsorption enhancement of rectangular adsorption bed. Heat Mass Transfer 41, 133–146 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00231-004-0512-x

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