Experimental investigation of a small-scale thermally driven pressurized adsorption chiller
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ArticleKAUST Department
Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) DivisionEnvironmental Science and Engineering Program
Water Desalination and Reuse Research Center (WDRC)
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2015Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/563941
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This paper describes the successful operation of an adsorption cycle in a miniaturized adsorption chiller (AD). The experiments show that the bench-scale pressurized adsorption chiller (PAC) has been successfully designed, commissioned, and tested. Experimental results at various heat fl uxes, half-cycle operation time intervals, and a cooling load of up to 24 W are also presented. A COP ranging from 0.05 to 0.15 is achieved depending on the parameters of the experimental conditions. Most importantly, the cooling performance of the PAC is achieved at a low encasement temperature that is below ambient. Besides having a high cooling density, the PAC has almost no major moving parts except for the fan of the condenser and it permits quiet operation as compared to other active coolers.Citation
Loh, W. S., Bin Ismail, A., Ng, K. C., & Chun, W. G. (2015). EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF A SMALL-SCALE THERMALLY DRIVEN PRESSURIZED ADSORPTION CHILLER. Heat Transfer Research, 46(4), 311–332. doi:10.1615/heattransres.2014006892Publisher
Begell HouseJournal
Heat Transfer Researchae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1615/HeatTransRes.2014006892