Dryscreen for Air Conditioning

✨ Dryscreen for Air Conditioning

In hot and humid climates, legacy vapor-compression air conditioning (AC) systems use a higher proportion of their energy in removing moisture than in reducing the incoming air temperature. State-of-the-art research in this field aims to reduce the energy consumption of AC systems by de-coupling these two processes to optimize them independently. Our novel technology, DryScreen, uses an emerging process consisting of a vacuum pump physically extracting water vapor from the air through a water-selective polymer membrane. Compared to vapor compression-induced condensation, this method uses less energy to remove moisture from incoming air, does not use high GWP refrigerant chemicals, delivers larger amounts of fresh air per unit of spent energy, and provides a healthy connection to the outside air.

Contact: Jack Alvarenga, Jonathan Grinham