Development of an adsorption chiller and heat pump for domestic heating and air-conditioning applications

The scope of this paper is to present the development of a prototype of a small adsorption heat pump working on the adsorption pair silica gel–water. The development of this prototype with remarkable high power densities has been carried out during the last year and is a result of continued joint work on adsorption heat transformation systems carried out at SorTech AG and the Fraunhofer Institute.