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Adsorption Refrigeration System

This document summarizes an adsorption refrigeration system. It introduces that adsorption systems use adsorbent beds to adsorb and desorb refrigerants like water to produce a cooling effect. While using natural refrigerants with no ozone depletion, adsorption systems have disadvantages like intermittent cooling, low efficiency, and long cycle times. The document then describes a simple one bed adsorption system and efforts to integrate improved silica gel/water adsorption chillers with solar energy collection to overcome those disadvantages. It concludes that significant progress has been made but further research is still needed to better recover thermal energy without adding complexity or optimizing mass transfer rates.

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Adsorption Refrigeration System

This document summarizes an adsorption refrigeration system. It introduces that adsorption systems use adsorbent beds to adsorb and desorb refrigerants like water to produce a cooling effect. While using natural refrigerants with no ozone depletion, adsorption systems have disadvantages like intermittent cooling, low efficiency, and long cycle times. The document then describes a simple one bed adsorption system and efforts to integrate improved silica gel/water adsorption chillers with solar energy collection to overcome those disadvantages. It concludes that significant progress has been made but further research is still needed to better recover thermal energy without adding complexity or optimizing mass transfer rates.

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Adsorption Refrigeration System

INTRODUCTION
Adsorption refrigeration system uses adsorbent beds to

adsorb and desorb a refrigerant to obtain cooling effect.


Adsorption systems mainly use a natural working fluid

which have zero ozone depletion potential.


However, the adsorption cooling machines still have

some disadvantages that hinder their wide application.


Inventors propose technologies to improve adsorption

system and make it become a realistic alternative.


An assessment is made about current development of

adsorption refrigeration technologies.

Simple Adsorption cooling system

One bed adsorption system by

Monma and Mizota

in 2005

Disadvantages of One Bed adsorption system


Intermittent cooling effect Low Coefficient of Performance (COP)

Long Cycle Time


Low Specific Cooling Power (SCP)

SILICA GEL/WATER ADSORPTION CHILLER INTEGRATED IN SOLAR COOLING SYSTEM by Dr. Uli Jakob in 2008

Step 1: Desorption Drying of the adsorbent The adsorbent is dried by heat input. Water vapour is set free, flows in the condenser and is liquefied there under heat emission. When the material is dry, the heat input in the adsorber is stopped and the upper check valve closes.

SILICA GEL/WATER ADSORPTION CHILLER INTEGRATED IN SOLAR COOLING SYSTEM by Dr. Uli Jakob in 2008

Step 2: Adsorption

water vapour is adsorbed at the surface of the adsorbent. After a cool down phase the reverse reaction and the evaporation of the liquid refrigerant starts. The lower check valve to the evaporator opens and the dry adsorbent aspirates water vapour. In the evaporator, water evaporates and generates cold.

SILICA GEL/WATER ADSORPTION CHILLER INTEGRATED IN SOLAR COOLING SYSTEM by Dr. Uli Jakob in 2008

Step 3: Return of condensate

In a final step, the liquid condensate is returned to the evaporator and the circuit is closed.

Fig. Internal construction of the adsorption chiller.

Conclusion
For

adsorption refrigeration system, significant achievements have been obtained on the use of various technologies to reduce the complexity of system structure, initial cost, to increase the system operation reliability as well as energy performance.

However, intensive research is still needed to:

i) enhance the amount of recovered thermal energy, without adding complexity into the design and operation of system ii) optimize the recovered mass rate to achieve the best effect.

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