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SOLAR ENERGY
Volume 81, Issue 5, Pages 607-613Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2006.09.001
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solar-powered water heating system; adsorption refrigeration; water chiller; low-temperature storage; grain storage
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A novel solar-powered adsorption cooling system for low-temperature grain storage has been built, which consists of a solar-powered water heating system, a silica gel-water adsorption chiller, a cooling tower and a fan coil unit. The adsorption chiller is composed of two identical adsorption units, each of them containing an adsorber, a condenser, and an evaporator/receiver. The two water evaporators have been incorporated into one methanol evaporator by the use of the concept of a gravity heat pipe. In order to improve the system efficiency and achieve continuous cooling production, the adsorbers are operated out-of-phase, and heat and mass recovery processes have been used. During the period from July to September of 2004, the system was put into experimental operation to cool the headspace (i.e., the air volume above the grain) of a grain bin. Three months of operation showed promising performance. The chiller had a cooling power between 66 and 90 W per m(2) of collector surface, with a daily solar cooling coefficient of performance (COPsolar) ranging from 0.096 to 0.13. The electric cooling COP was between 2.6 and 3.4. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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