TY - JOUR
T1 - An overview of developments in adsorption refrigeration systems towards a sustainable way of cooling
AU - Choudhury, Biplab
AU - Saha, Bidyut Baran
AU - Chatterjee, Pradip K.
AU - Sarkar, Jyoti Prakas
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2013/4
Y1 - 2013/4
N2 - Growing energy demand and global climate change are compelling reasons to look for effective utilisation of waste thermal energy and renewable energy resources. Fifteen percent of the electricity produced in the whole world is employed for refrigeration and air-conditioning processes of various kinds. Low-temperature heat operated environment-friendly adsorption cooling systems are emerging as viable alternatives to electricity-driven vapour compression refrigeration systems. Comparatively bigger sizes of adsorption based cooling units, due to their low specific cooling power, are preventing successful commercialization of the technology. Efforts are on to enhance the performance of adsorption systems through improvements in adsorbents properties, use of advanced cycles, etc. Recent application of nano-technology in the development of adsorbent material may be a big step forward towards making this technology competitive with available technologies in the market. This paper traces the evolution of the technology and analyses the obstacles to wide spread use of adsorption chillers.
AB - Growing energy demand and global climate change are compelling reasons to look for effective utilisation of waste thermal energy and renewable energy resources. Fifteen percent of the electricity produced in the whole world is employed for refrigeration and air-conditioning processes of various kinds. Low-temperature heat operated environment-friendly adsorption cooling systems are emerging as viable alternatives to electricity-driven vapour compression refrigeration systems. Comparatively bigger sizes of adsorption based cooling units, due to their low specific cooling power, are preventing successful commercialization of the technology. Efforts are on to enhance the performance of adsorption systems through improvements in adsorbents properties, use of advanced cycles, etc. Recent application of nano-technology in the development of adsorbent material may be a big step forward towards making this technology competitive with available technologies in the market. This paper traces the evolution of the technology and analyses the obstacles to wide spread use of adsorption chillers.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.apenergy.2012.11.042
DO - 10.1016/j.apenergy.2012.11.042
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84871389731
VL - 104
SP - 554
EP - 567
JO - Applied Energy
JF - Applied Energy
SN - 0306-2619
ER -