Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6729913 | Energy and Buildings | 2016 | 41 Pages |
Abstract
This paper aims to provide the current state of the art of solar sorption systems. Through comprehensive literature review of solar sorption systems, it was concluded that these technologies have several limitations and drawbacks. The low performance and the high cost are the main disadvantages of these technologies. However, solar cooling is considered attractive because solar radiation is in phase with the demand for cooling. Due to its attractiveness, the research is still going and focusing on solving the technical, economical, environmental problems, to achieve high performance and low cost of solar sorption systems. Improvements through investigating geometrical, system configurations, physical parameters, and operational modes on the performance of solar thermal sorption cooling systems are presented. A survey of the new configurations, novel additions, new techniques, new methodologies are also presented in this paper. Several cases studies in different climatic conditions are summarized. Economic feasibility for absorption and adsorption systems is discussed. It can be concluded that cost and energy effective solar sorption systems can be developed if suitable combinations of system components with operating conditions are selected. Finally, there is still the need for more research on solar sorption systems to make them both cost and energy competitive with the conventional cooling technologies.
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Authors
Khaled Bataineh, Yazan Taamneh,