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A method and apparatus for heat and mass transfer is described that is applicable to: concentration, crystallization, purification, fractionation, stripping, absorption, and/or heat exchange for liquid media; drying for solid or gel media; and temperature and humidity modification for gas media. Gen

A method and apparatus for heat and mass transfer is described that is applicable to: concentration, crystallization, purification, fractionation, stripping, absorption, and/or heat exchange for liquid media; drying for solid or gel media; and temperature and humidity modification for gas media. Generally, using a moving gas, such as air at a constant and atmospheric pressure, a continual change in a vapor-liquid equilibrium is created between proximate but continually changing gas and liquid temperatures within energy transferring chambers. Chamber wetting, implemented segmentedly, allows mass transfer into and from the moving gas. A forced temperature differential in each chamber causes heat transfer between chambers by means of thermally conductive partitons. This transfer can allow condensation causing further evaporation in the opposite chamber resulting in a recycling of energy. Concurrent with temperature variances, the segmented wetting can further allow wetting substance concentrations caused by evaporation, selective condensation, or absorption to vary between wetted sectors. A migratory movement connecting these wetted sectors generally provides for development of applicable concentration gradients between the wetted sectors along the chamber length.

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An apparatus for air conditioning, said apparatus comprising: a first chamber divided into a plurality of first chamber sectors; a second chamber divided into a plurality of second chamber sectors, said first and second chambers further being thermally connected by a partition, wherein said partitio

An apparatus for air conditioning, said apparatus comprising: a first chamber divided into a plurality of first chamber sectors; a second chamber divided into a plurality of second chamber sectors, said first and second chambers further being thermally connected by a partition, wherein said partition is implemented to conduct heat; means for causing air to be conditioned to flow through a one of said chambers, and, after exchanging heat, through another of said chambers, air flow in said first and second chambers being thermally countercurrent; wetting means in said first chamber for segmentally wetting at least a plurality of said first chamber sectors with a desiccant solution, wherein an interaction by said desiccant solution with said air progressively dehumidifies said air; migration means for providing a migratory movement for said desiccant solution from a first sector to a second sector within said first chamber; and means for segmentally wetting said plurality of sectors of said second chamber with a vaporizable liquid, said partition conducting heat between said air in said first and second chambers.