Mass recovery adsorption refrigeration cycle—improving cooling capacity

Mass recovery can play an important role to better the performance of adsorption refrigeration cycles. Cooling capacity can be significantly increased with mass recovery process. The coefficient of performance (COP) of the activated carbon/ammonia adsorption refrigeration cycle might be increased or decreased with mass recovery process due to different working conditions. The advantage is that its COP is not sensitive to the variation of heat capacity of adsorber metal and condensing and evaporating temperature. The cycle with mass and heat recovery has a relatively high COP.

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04/02540 A four-bed mass recovery adsorption refrigeration cycle driven by low temperature waste/renewable heat source

Fuel and Energy Abstracts ◽

10.1016/s0140-6701(04)80343-6 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 45 (5) ◽

pp. 354-355

Keyword(s):

Low Temperature ◽

Heat Source ◽

Refrigeration Cycle ◽

Adsorption Refrigeration ◽

Mass Recovery

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Application of Suction Line Heat Exchanger on Adsorption Refrigeration System

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering ◽

10.1115/1.1634989 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 126 (1) ◽

pp. 671-673 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Wen Wang ◽

Tianfei Qu ◽

Zhonghua Li ◽

Ruzhu Wang

Keyword(s):

Experimental Data ◽

Heat Exchanger ◽

Cooling Capacity ◽

Cycle Performance ◽

Refrigeration Cycle ◽

Refrigeration System ◽

Adsorption Refrigeration ◽

Suction Line ◽

Suction Line Heat Exchanger ◽

Condensed Liquid

Quantitative thermodynamic analysis demonstrates that an adsorption refrigeration cycle could get higher cycle performance by employing a suction line heat exchanger (SLHX). Low temperature evaporated gas not only helps to cool down the adsorbent, it further increases the cooling output by recovering heat and cooling the condensed liquid. Experimental data also verifies that a SLHX recovers heat from the evaporated gas and helps the evaporator to provide higher cooling capacity.

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423 Performance Evaluation of an Advanced Three-Bed Mass Recovery Adsorption Refrigeration Cycle(International Session)

The Proceedings of the Symposium on Environmental Engineering ◽

10.1299/jsmeenv.2008.18.389 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 2008.18 (0) ◽

pp. 389-392

Author(s):

Aep Saepul UYUN ◽

Atsushi AKISAWA ◽

Takahiko MIYAZAKI ◽

Takao KASHIWAGI

Keyword(s):

Performance Evaluation ◽

Refrigeration Cycle ◽

Adsorption Refrigeration ◽

Mass Recovery

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Experimental investigation of mass recovery adsorption refrigeration cycle

International Journal of Refrigeration ◽

10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2004.10.001 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 28 (4) ◽

pp. 565-572 ◽

Cited By ~ 53

Author(s):

Akira Akahira ◽

K.C. Amanul Alam ◽

Yoshinori Hamamoto ◽

Atsushi Akisawa ◽

Takao Kashiwagi

Keyword(s):

Experimental Investigation ◽

Refrigeration Cycle ◽

Adsorption Refrigeration ◽

Mass Recovery

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Study and Analysis by Numerical Simulation of a Solar Continuous Adsorption Chiller

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.773-774.605 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 773-774 ◽

pp. 605-609

Author(s):

Rabah Gomri ◽

Billel Mebarki

Keyword(s):

Solar Energy ◽

Cooling System ◽

Recovery Process ◽

Cooling Capacity ◽

Coefficient Of Performance ◽

Solar Collectors ◽

Adsorption Refrigeration ◽

Continuous Adsorption ◽

Adsorption Cooling System ◽

Mass Recovery

Environment and energy problems over the world have motivated researchers to develop energy systems more sustainable, having as one of the possible alternative the use of solar energy as source for cooling systems. Adsorption refrigeration systems are regarded as environmentally friendly alternatives to conventional vapour compression refrigeration systems, since they can use refrigerants that do not contribute to ozone layer depletion and global warming. In this paper a performance comparison between a solar continuous adsorption cooling system without mass recovery process and solar continuous adsorption cooling system with mass recovery process is carried out. Silica-Gel as adsorbent and water as refrigerant are selected. The results show that the adsorption refrigeration machine driven by solar energy can operate effectively during four months and is able to produce cold continuously along the 24 hours of the day. The importance of the mass recovery is proved in this study by increasing the coefficient of performance and the cooling capacity produced. For the same cooling capacity produced, the required number of solar collectors with mass recovery system is lower than the required number of solar collectors in the case of the refrigeration unit without mass recovery. For the same cooling capacity the system with mass recovery process allowed lower generation temperature.

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