Review of the potential and challenges of MOF-based adsorption heat pumps for sustainable cooling and heating in the buildings

Jubair A. Shamim, Kashif Nawaz, Ming-Hsuan Hu, Paris Pasqualin, Easwaran N. Krishnan, Stephen P. Kowalski, Palash Kumar Bhowmik, Rajagopalan Parameshwaran, Wei-Lun Hsu, Yunho Hwang and Hirofumi Daiguji

Energy, 2025, vol. 323, issue C

Abstract: Heat pumps are regarded as the most suitable means to meet the future demand of heating and cooling in the building, as they require small input of electrical energy and output high thermal energy. Vapor compression heat pump (VCHP) and transcritical-CO2 heat pump are the two major heat pump technologies currently dominating the market. However, VCHP system suffers from its fugitive emission of hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants, and transcritical-CO2 system requires high operating pressure (typically 9–13 MPa). For low-to-medium temperature heating and cooling applications thermally driven adsorption heat pump (AHP) provides a better alternative to VCHP and transcritical-CO2 system as AHP uses natural refrigerants and operates at a much lower pressure. But currently available AHP technology has the limitation of low coefficient of performance (COP). Advances in synthesizing metal-organic frameworks (MOF) with high gas adsorption capacity have created an opportunity to address the problem of low COP of current AHP technology. This article reviews the progress made in the past decade in utilizing MOF and conventional adsorbents with different working fluids in AHP technology and compares their performance. The article also summarizes the key challenges for the MOF-based AHP technology and provides the authors’ perspective to address these challenges.

Keywords: Space cooling and heating; Hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants; Metal-organic-framework; Vapor compression heat pump; Transcritical-CO2 heat pump; Adsorption heat pump (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2025.135846

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