Desiccant wheels are effective dehumidification devices. The performance of desiccant dehumidification and cooling systems is examined in this paper. Based on a theoretical investigation, six kinds of systems (systems A–F) were analyzed as the system changed from being reversible to being...

Multi-stage desiccant systems are an effective way to improve the performance of desiccant dehumidification systems, which can greatly decrease the required regeneration temperature and make possible the utilization of exhaust heat from the heat pump. The performance of a heat pump-driven...

A new type of outdoor air dehumidification processor using solid desiccant is proposed, in which a heat pump and square desiccant plates are combined. Each desiccant plate consists of an air channel with a honeycomb structure that is coated with desiccant material. The square desiccant plates...

The main task of HVAC systems in the cooling condition is to remove heat from indoor environment to outdoor environment. HVAC systems are complex networks of various processes, e.g., heat transfer, heat–work conversion, heat–humidity conversion, etc. These processes correspond to equipment...

A temperature and humidity independent control (THIC) system is a way to regulate indoor temperature and humidity separately through different approaches. Because of this distinction, THIC air-conditioning systems can satisfy the adjustment requirements of indoor temperature and humidity better...

Inorganic lead-free Cs 2 AgBiBr 6 double perovskite is a promising material for solving the toxicity and the instability of organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite. However, due to the poor interface contact and inferior perovskite film quality, the open-circuit voltage and the power conversion...

Inexpensive and eco-friendly cobalt boride @ vermiculite (CoB@Ver) composites with excellent electrochemical kinetics were fabricated by a facile chemical liquid-phase reduction method. Because of the loading of intermetallic CoB and the extraordinary wettability of vermiculite, the affinity...

This paper introduces a new city-level panel dataset constructed using satellite nighttime light imagery and grid population data. The dataset contains over 1,500 cities covering 43 economies of Asia and the Pacific from 1992 to 2016. With the dataset, we perform a variety of analyses for Asia...