Adsorption cooling cycles for adsorbent/adsorbate pairs at assorted operating pressures

Wai Soong Loh; Kim Choon Ng; Anutosh Chakraborty; Bidyut Baran Saha; Ibrahim El Sharkawy

Adsorption cooling cycles for adsorbent/adsorbate pairs at assorted operating pressures

Wai Soong Loh, Kim Choon Ng^*, Anutosh Chakraborty, Bidyut Baran Saha, Ibrahim El Sharkawy

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Abstract

This paper presents the performance analysis of an ideal heat driven adsorption cooling cycle in both low and high operating pressures. A total of eight specimens of adsorbents and refrigerant pairs namely activated carbon fibre (ACF) of type A15/ethanol, A20/ethanol, Silica gel/water, Chemviron/R134a, Fluka/R134a, A20/R134a, Maxsorb II/R134a and Maxsorb III/R134a have been investigated. The relationships between equilibrium pressures, adsorbent temperatures and equilibrium adsorption concentrations (Dühring or P-T-W diagram) have been presented. The understanding of Dühring diagram (as shown below) is crucial in the design of commercial adsorption chillers. Parametric analysis has been carried out with various regeneration (desorption) and evaporating temperatures. Theoretical analysis shows that the ACF (A20)/ethanol can achieve 344 kJ/kg_adsorbent specific cooling effect (SCE) with regeneration temperature at 85°C. Moreover, the ACF (A20)/ethanol exhibits a coefficient of performance (COP) of 0.7 and followed by the silica gel/water pair with COP of 0.68 at low regeneration temperature (below 85°C).

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	4th Asian Conference on Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning, ACRA 2009
Publisher	National Taipei University of Technology
Pages	287-292
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9868509610, 9789868509610
State	Published - 2009
Event	4th Asian Conference on Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning, ACRA 2009 - Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China Duration: May 20 2009 → May 22 2009

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Name	4th Asian Conference on Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning, ACRA 2009

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Other	4th Asian Conference on Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning, ACRA 2009
Country/Territory	Taiwan, Province of China
City	Taipei
Period	05/20/09 → 05/22/09

Keywords

Activate carbon
Adsorption chillers
Dühring diagram
Silica gel

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous)

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Loh, W. S., Ng, K. C., Chakraborty, A., Saha, B. B., & El Sharkawy, I. (2009). Adsorption cooling cycles for adsorbent/adsorbate pairs at assorted operating pressures. In 4th Asian Conference on Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning, ACRA 2009 (pp. 287-292). (4th Asian Conference on Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning, ACRA 2009). National Taipei University of Technology.

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Loh, WS, Ng, KC, Chakraborty, A, Saha, BB & El Sharkawy, I 2009, Adsorption cooling cycles for adsorbent/adsorbate pairs at assorted operating pressures. in 4th Asian Conference on Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning, ACRA 2009. 4th Asian Conference on Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning, ACRA 2009, National Taipei University of Technology, pp. 287-292, 4th Asian Conference on Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning, ACRA 2009, Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China, 05/20/09.

Adsorption cooling cycles for adsorbent/adsorbate pairs at assorted operating pressures. / Loh, Wai Soong; Ng, Kim Choon; Chakraborty, Anutosh et al.
4th Asian Conference on Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning, ACRA 2009. National Taipei University of Technology, 2009. p. 287-292 (4th Asian Conference on Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning, ACRA 2009).

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