基于膜的热湿传递过程作为一种新型的温度、湿度处理技术,在建筑环境节能高效控制领域取得了积极进展.膜技术具有高效紧凑的特点,并且它可以选择性地只允许水蒸气通过膜表面,从而避免了液体除湿过程中溶液小液滴对新风的污染.近年来,该技术从热湿传递原理到实际应用都取得了新进展.本文介绍了目前应用的选择性透湿膜材料,分析了平板膜全热交换器、板翅式膜全热交换器、交叉三角形波纹板全热交换器和中空纤维膜组件等膜设备的传热传质过程.它们的传热传质分析,同时考虑了膜两侧热湿耦合的自然边界条件、流体在组件内流动的不均匀性、管束随机分布等实际运行因素对传热传质的影响.这些研究工作对膜组件的设计和膜系统的优化提供了理论基础.此外,还介绍了各种新型膜式除湿系统,当它们与热泵或太阳能等系统联合应用时,可以扩大系统的热湿负荷适应范围,增加系统的能量利用效率.今后,随着新型膜材料、内冷型膜组件、多级除湿系统以及瞬态动态参数模拟技术的出现,膜式热湿传递技术将会在实际工程中发挥更大作用.
Membrane-based heat and moisture treatment is a novel temperature and humidity control technology for energy conservation in buildings. Its moisture control effectiveness is high, and it is compact. Moreover, the traditional problem of desiccant droplet crossover is prevented. In recent years, much progress has been made in the development of this technology, from fundamentals to applications. In this review, advances are introduced, including novel membrane materials, new findings in conjugate heat and mass transfer in membrane modules, and new systems that combine air dehumidification with renewable energy use. A membrane made of a uniform material is weak on mass transfer and not suitable for engineering applications. A composite hydrophobic-hydrophilic membrane can substitute for it because of the reduction in mass transfer resistance. The heat and moisture transfer mechanisms in parallel plates, plate fins, and cross-eorrugated membrane-based total heat exchangers are discussed. The heat and mass transfer properties in hollow fibers modules are described. The conjugate heat and mass transfer on the surface membrane, flow mal-distribution in the membrane modules and the randomly distributed nature of heat in the tube banks are ideal for application in dehumidification systems. Their effects on heat and mass transfer are presented. The correlations for heat and mass transfer, and the detailed Nusselt and friction data for module design, are summarized. They provide the fundamentals for system design and optimization. Moreover, the heat and mass entransy dissipation, which is a new concept in thermodynamics, is introduced to analyze the system performance. It is found that the larger the heat and mass entransy dissipation, the more heat is lost and the more irreversible the mass transfer for air dehumidification. In addition, the system set-up and the applications of this new technology are introduced. The heat pump driven liquid dehumidification systems perform well because the cooling and heating before dehum