Heat Pipe Technology: Volume 1. Fundamentals and Experimental Studies

ISBN Print: 0-8493-9921-1

ADSORPTION COOLING AND HEAT PUMPS

DOI: 10.1615/IHPC1990v1.210
pages 195-203

Sinopsis

Experiments on adsorptive heat pumps operating either with a zeolite-water pair or with an active carbon-methanol pair have been performed on a laboratory scale unit (6 kW heat source).
A three-adsorber heat pump consisting of a two adsorber zeolite-water cycle topping an intermittent active carbon-methanol cycle has been designed and tested. An experimental cooling COP equal to 1.06 has been obtained.
All types of adsorption systems will be reviewed (fixed-bed as well as moving bed systems).
Adsorption heat pumps or refrigerating systems could be part of the answer to the problem of CFC atmospheric pollution.