Calcium Chloride based dessicant

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Hello everyone.
I would like to experiment with solar air conditioning, which may work as a massive dehumidifier.

I have the idea of making a suspension/solution of Calcium Chloride and / or some sort of Lithium dessicant salt in some sort of oil, run between a solar boiler to evaporate water,on the outside, and then, feed that moisture hungry suspension / solution into something like a big oil wet air cleaner, where an electric fan / turbine would cause suction of damp air into the filter, the dessicant fluid would dry it and it would come out of this very dry.

This video has inspired me:
 
Chemistry news on Phys.org
Nicely presented, lengthy.

Note though that the Relative Humidity (RH) went UP (lower air temperature with the same amount of water vapor per volume of air).:doh:

Cheers,
Tom
 
Yes, it's because the real refrigerant is humidity itself, just tries to fill the void left by what has been absorbed and outward driven by means of this device.