Aiming at the climate characteristics of extreme hot and humid climate region
this study constructed a solar solution dehumidification system (LDDS-SC) with a self-circulation structure of dehumidification/regeneration. The coupling relationship between system dehumidification and solar light/thermal area was comprehensively considered
and the numerical solution was carried out by NTU-Le model. The system dehumidification amount per unit solar collector/PV panel area under different dehumidification and regeneration self-circulation reflux ratio (
) matching conditions is obtained. The results show that under typical working conditions (=1800 m/h
=4.0 kg/s)
the maximum dehumidification capacity
the system dehumidification capacity per unit collector area and the system dehumidification capacity per unit photovoltaic panel area are about 2.5 times
15.1 times and 6.2 times of the conventional system
respectively. The optimal dehumidification and regeneration self-circulation reflux ratio of the system is obtained by TOPSIS multi-objective decision-making method as (
) is (0.9
0.1)
and the system dehumidification amount is 4.61 g/s and the system dehumidification amount per unit total area is 0.28 g/(s·m). LDDS-SC system shows better dehumidification and energy saving potential than conventional solution dehumidification system.
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