Experiments with solar-powered adsorption ice-maker

K. Sumathy and Li Zhongfu

Renewable Energy, 1999, vol. 16, issue 1, 704-707

Abstract: This paper presents the description and operation of a solar-powered ice-maker with the solid adsorption pair of activated carbon and methanol. A domestic type of charcoal is chosen as the adsorbent, and a simple flat-plate collector with an exposed area of 0.92 m2 is employed to produce ice of about 4–5kg/day. The above system could achieve solar refrigeration COP of about 0.1–0.12.

Keywords: Solar energy; solid adsorption; activated carbon; methanol; ice-maker (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (16)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960148198002560
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:renene:v:16:y:1999:i:1:p:704-707

DOI: 10.1016/S0960-1481(98)00256-0

Access Statistics for this article

Renewable Energy is currently edited by Soteris A. Kalogirou and Paul Christodoulides

More articles in Renewable Energy from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().