US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Aug. 26 for "Vapor-selective nanostructured membrane heat exchangers for cooling and dehumidification" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,894, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Vapor-selective nanostructured membrane heat exchangers for cooling and dehumidification" was invented by Andrew Joseph Fix (West Lafayette, Ind.), James Edward Braun (West Lafayette, Ind.) and David Martin Warsinger (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchange system is disclosed which includes an air inlet, a membrane in fluid communication with the air inlet and adapted to have a partial vapor pressure difference across the membrane to thereby drive water vapor flux through the membrane, wherein the membrane is a sel...