Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7048680 | Applied Thermal Engineering | 2016 | 19 Pages |
Abstract
Adsorption heat pumps and chillers provide sustainable heating and cooling by transforming waste or solar heat. To increase the efficiency of adsorption heat pumps and chillers, new adsorber designs are constantly proposed. However, evaluating the efficiency of new adsorber designs is a time- and money-consuming task. To reduce time and costs, we combine two methods in this work: First, the kinetic performance is evaluated experimentally using the Large Temperature Jump method for a representative adsorber part. Second, a dynamic model for the adsorber is developed and validated. The validated adsorber model is used in a dynamic model of a complete adsorption heat pump cycle. Our approach allows for a sound analysis of novel adsorber designs by determination of the efficiency indicators specific cooling power (SCP) and coefficient of performance (COP) based on a representative adsorber part. We studied a representative adsorber part made from an extruded aluminum tube heat exchanger filled with silica gel 123. We determined SCP and COP as function of adsorption and desorption times and found a maximum SCP 268âWâkgâ1 with a corresponding COP of 0.51 for a desorption time of 125âs and an adsorption time of 200âs.
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Authors
Stefan Graf, Franz Lanzerath, Alessio Sapienza, Andrea Frazzica, Angelo Freni, André Bardow,