New climate-control units for more energy-efficient Electric Vehicles: The innovative Three-Fluids Combined Membrane Contactor

This paper describes the work in progress in the XERIC project, funded within the Horizon 2020 EU program, which is aimed at building and testing a new climate-control system. The latter integrates a vapour compression cycle with a liquid desiccant cycle to increase Battery Electric Vehicles autonom...

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Published in2017 Twelfth International Conference on Ecological Vehicles and Renewable Energies (EVER) pp. 1 - 5
Main Authors Isetti, Carlo, Nannei, Enrico, Lazzari, Stefano, Hariri, Saeed, Iliev, Oleg, Prill, Torben
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.04.2017
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Atmospheric modeling
Fluids
Heat transfer
hybrid AC systems
liquid desiccant air handling
Mathematical model
mobile air conditioning
Numerical models
Refrigerants
Solid modeling
Three-Fluids Combined Membrane Contactors
XERIC project
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Summary:This paper describes the work in progress in the XERIC project, funded within the Horizon 2020 EU program, which is aimed at building and testing a new climate-control system. The latter integrates a vapour compression cycle with a liquid desiccant cycle to increase Battery Electric Vehicles autonomy thanks to its increased energy efficiency. The modeling activity carried out on the design of an innovative Three-Fluids Combined Membrane Contactor (3F-CMC) and on the development of a lumped-parameters model to predict the 3F-CMC performance is described. The physical assumptions considered in the lumped-parameters model are presented. Results of 2D and 3D numerical heat and mass transfer simulations are used to get input data for the lumped code. The effect of air spacer design on the overall component performance is presented.
DOI:10.1109/EVER.2017.7935951