Journal
APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING
Volume 30, Issue 10, Pages 1193-1198Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2010.01.036
Keywords
Activated carbon; Adsorption heat pump; Silica; Water vapor adsorption; Pore structure
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A novel adsorbent design technique base on the concept of Kelvin equation was proposed to develop hydrophilic adsorbent applicable to water vapor adsorption heat pump (AHP) for high performance. In the process, the composite adsorbent was prepared after silica gel was synthesized in the pores of activated carbons by impregnating activated carbons in sodium silicate solution. Two kinds of activated carbons were tested to produce composite adsorbent and to investigate the performance by measuring the adsorption isotherms of water vapor and pore structure characteristics. All adsorption isotherms of the silica impregnated activated carbons prepared shifted to a lower region of water vapor pressure compared to those of the raw activated carbons. The volume-based amount of adsorption in the AHP operation range (phi = 0.1-0.4) for the adsorbents prepared at sodium silicate solution concentration of 10 wt.% and impregnating time of 48 h are 5.88 and 2.62 times that of the raw activated carbons (AC1 and AC2), respectively. Based on the Kelvin equation, it is clarified that the contact angle and the volume of pore radius greater than 1.2 nm decrease with the increase of sodium silicate solution concentration for the novel composite adsorbents, which contributes the isothermals shift to lower relative pressure range. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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