Environmentally benign working pairs for adsorption refrigeration

Qun Cui, Gang Tao, Haijun Chen, Xinyue Guo and Huqing Yao

Energy, 2005, vol. 30, issue 2, 261-271

Abstract: This paper begins from adsorption working pairs: water and ethanol were selected as refrigerants; 13x molecular sieve, silica gel, activated carbon, adsorbent NA and NB, proposed by authors, were selected as adsorbents, and the performance of adsorption working pairs in adsorption refrigeration cycle was studied. The adsorption isotherms of adsorbents (NA and NB) were obtained by high-vacuum gravimetric method. Desorption properties of adsorbents were analyzed and compared by thermal analysis method. The performance of adsorption refrigeration was studied on simulation device of adsorption refrigeration cycle. After presentation of adsorption isotherms, the thermodynamic performance for their use in adsorption refrigeration system was calculated. The results show: (1) the maximum adsorption capacity of water on adsorbent NA reaches 0.7 kg/kg, and the maximum adsorption capacity of ethanol on adsorbent NB is 0.68 kg/kg, which is three times that of ethanol on activated carbon, (2) the refrigeration capacity of NA–water working pair is 922 kJ/kg, the refrigeration capacity of NB–ethanol is 2.4 times that of activated carbon–methanol, (3) as environmental friendly and no public hazard adsorption working pair, NA–H2O and NB–ethanol can substitute activated carbon–methanol in adsorption refrigeration system using low-grade heat source.

Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2004.05.005

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