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I wonder if you could just pump the liquid desiccant outside, do the drying outdoors, and then pump it back inside. Then you wouldn't need to worry about air ha
by adrianmonk 3y ago
I wonder if you could just pump the liquid desiccant outside, do the drying outdoors, and then pump it back inside. Then you wouldn't need to worry about air handling for the moist air.
When retrofitting a house to replace traditional AC with this, it may not be easy to get air from where the AC is located (usually the middle of the house) to the outside. If you pump desiccant outside, maybe you can squeeze desiccant hoses in right next to your refrigerant lines.
Also, there's all that waste heat outside at the condenser anyway. It seems like you could use that heat to help dry the desiccant. I guess that creates a different tricky optimization problem: if you wait too long to start drying your desiccant at night, when you finally do, you risk making the house too cold because you are stealing its heat. Maybe you just pause desiccant drying until whenever AC is needed again.