Mohammad Shakir Nasif, Graham L. Morrison, and Masud Behnia

pp. 1065 - 1072

Abstract

The performance of a membrane-based heat exchanger utilizing porous paper as the heat and
moisture transfer media is presented. The measured performance is compared with a plastic film heat
exchanger. This novel heat exchanger is used in ventilation energy recovery systems. The results show that
the sensible effectiveness is higher than the latent effectiveness. When a similar experiment was conducted
using a plastic film heat exchanger surface instead of paper, where only heat is transferred, the sensible
effectiveness values were lower than the effectiveness values recorded when the paper heat exchanger is used.
Furthermore, energy analysis shows that utilizing a paper surface heat exchanger in a standard air conditioning system will lead to significant energy savings.