The Effect of Thermal Conductance of Evaporator on Performance of a Two Stage Adsorption Chiller (Reheat) with Different Mass Allocation

Abstract

Now a days, adsorption heat pumps receive considerable attention as they are energy savers and environmentally benign. Silica gel/water based adsorption cycles have a distinct advantage in their ability to be driven by heat of near-ambient temperature so that waste heat below 100 °C can be recovered. One interesting feature of refrigeration cycles driven by waste heat is that they do not use primary energy as driving source. In the present paper, an analytic investigation of a two-stage adsorption refrigeration chiller using re-heat with different mass allocation was performed to determine the influence of the thermal conductance of evaporator as well as the heat source temperature on the chiller performance. Result shows that cycle performance is strongly influenced by large thermal conductance values of the evaporator. Besides it is observed that the chilled water outlet has lower value for comparatively higher value of heat source temperature.