Journal
APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING
Volume 24, Issue 17-18, Pages 2537-2555Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2004.04.009
Keywords
solar energy; refrigeration; adsorption; activated carbon-ammonia; heat pipe
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In this paper we present the study of adsorption refrigerator which use an activated carbon-pair ammonia. The ability of activated carbons to adsorb large mass of ammonia makes them ideal for use in adsorption refrigeration and pump systems. These systems have not reasonable efficiency. In order to make these systems economically viable, their size must be reduced. This implies a need for a rapid heating and cooling the adsorbent/refrigerant pair. However, the main problems to be overcome is related to the poor heat transfer in the adsorbent bed. So, it is necessary to study and understand the heat and mass transfer within the bed and to improve it. A detailed model of heat and mass transfer into the generator has been developed. For a given heat flux, temperature and adsorbed mass have been computed in every point at each step time along the adsorbed bed (generator). Experimental installation simulating an adsorption machine working within a temperature ranging from 20 to 250 degreesC and pressure ranging from 0 to 2.5 x 10(6) Pa, allows for identification of the generator's equivalent thermal conductivity and internal heat transfer coefficient. These two parameters are then used to simulate thermal performance of a design whose features include the insertion of stainless steel water heat pipe (HP's) condensers into the generator. The HP's evaporator heat input is of solar origin using a compound parabolic collector (CPC). Nominal Solar coefficient of performance, COPs = 14.37% obtained through both Adimensional Exergy Loss (AEL), and COP study, shows the competitiveness of the proposed design. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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