Analytical modelling of food storage cooling with solar ammonia-water absorption system, powered by parabolic trough collectors. Method

The study presents a new analytical model capable to reveal the thermal behaviour of all the components of the solar ammonia-water absorption system, powered by parabolic trough collec-tors, serving different types of food storages: refrigeration chamber, refrigerated food storage, freezing chamber and frozen food storage. The heat inputs, that determine the total cooling load, for each food storage spaces consist of: heat gains through walls, heat gains through ventilation (fresh air), heat that must be dissipated from the stored products (technological cooling load re-quired to cool down the products) and heat gains through operation. The influence of the number of solar parabolic trough collectors and of the storage tank size on different parameters of the refrigeration plant are investigated under low and high storage temperatures.center dot Food cooling with solar absorption refrigeration system.center dot Hourly based variation of NH3-H2O solar absorption system performances.center dot Long term simulation of solar absorption cooling for refrigeration and cooling.

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The study presents a new analytical model to analyze the thermal behavior of all components of a solar ammonia-water absorption system for food storages. It investigates the influence of the number of collectors and storage tank size on the refrigeration plant's parameters under different temperatures.