Al-Khawarizmi Engineering Journal (Sep 2014)

Experimental Performance of a Finned-tube Silica Gel Adsorption Chiller for Air-Conditioning Application

  • Mohammed A. Atiya,
  • Farkad A. Lattieff,
  • Adil A. Al-Hemiri

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 3
pp. 68 – 77

Abstract

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This work presents the construction of a test apparatus for air-conditioning application that is flexible in changing a scaled down adsorbent bed modules. To improve the heat and mass transfer performance of the adsorbent bed, a finned-tube of the adsorbent bed heat exchanger was used. The results show that the specific cooling power (SCP) and the coefficient of performance (COP) are 163 W/kg and 0.16, respectively, when the cycle time is 40 min, the hot water temperature is 90oC, the cooling water temperature is 30oC and the evaporative water temperature is 11.4oC.