The objective of this project is to investigate an energy efficient air conditioner to be able to compete with conventional vapour compression systems. Liquid desiccant air dehumidifier/indirect evaporative cooling using cross-flow type Plate Heat Exchanger (PHE) as dehumidifier offers a cost effective and more environmentally friendly air conditioning system. It removes moisture form the air a...

This editorial comments on the article by Lubliner et al. in this issue. The fields of geriatric medicine and gerontology take pride multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary team approach to caring for exploring ways improve lives older adults. These teams often include health care professionals such as physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, dentists, ophthalmologists, optici...

The heat and mass transfer phenomena that occur in beds of ventilated hygroscopic porous media are coupled. This results in two transfer waves traversing bulks of porous medium that initially have a uniform temperature and moisture content, and that are subsequently ventilated with air that is not in thermodynamic equilibrium with the solids. The more rapidly travelling wave is known as a tempe...

DUE To THE IRKEPI.ACEARILITY OY MATERIALS as well as the innumerable variations in physical condition and storage needs, special collections present many challenges to preservation and conservation professionals. In reaction to these challenges, there have been many advances and changes within the fields of preservation and conservation. The goal of this short paper is to highlight some of the ...

When theories about “disruptive” technologies became popular in the late 1990s, advocates were quick to apply the term to energy efficiency technologies. Based on such theories, efficiency advocates hailed the ultimate dominance of their favored technologies over current conventional energy technologies. These disruptive technology theories were largely popularized by Clayton M. Christensen, a ...