Producing cold from heat with aluminum carboxylate-based metal-organic frameworks

Effrosyni Gkaniatsou; Chaoben Chen; Frédéric S. Cui; Xiaowei Zhu; Paul Sapin; Farid Nouar; Cédric Boissière; Christos N. Markides; Jan Hensen; Christian Serre

Cell Reports Physical Science (Feb 2022)

Producing cold from heat with aluminum carboxylate-based metal-organic frameworks

Effrosyni Gkaniatsou,
Chaoben Chen,
Frédéric S. Cui,
Xiaowei Zhu,
Paul Sapin,
Farid Nouar,
Cédric Boissière,
Christos N. Markides,
Jan Hensen,
Christian Serre

Affiliations

Effrosyni Gkaniatsou: Institut des Matériaux Poreux de Paris (IMAP), ESPCI Paris, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL University, CNRS, Paris, France
Chaoben Chen: Elektron Gri, 10 Rue des Trois Portes, 75005 Paris, France
Frédéric S. Cui: Elektron Gri, 10 Rue des Trois Portes, 75005 Paris, France; Department of the Built Environment, Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, the Netherlands; Corresponding author
Xiaowei Zhu: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Paul Sapin: Clean Energy Processes (CEP) Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Farid Nouar: Institut des Matériaux Poreux de Paris (IMAP), ESPCI Paris, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL University, CNRS, Paris, France
Cédric Boissière: Sorbonne Université, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 7475, Chimie de la Matière de la Condensée, 75005 Paris, France
Christos N. Markides: Clean Energy Processes (CEP) Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Jan Hensen: Department of the Built Environment, Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Christian Serre: Institut des Matériaux Poreux de Paris (IMAP), ESPCI Paris, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL University, CNRS, Paris, France; Corresponding author

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 2
p. 100730

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Summary: Worldwide cooling energy demands will increase by four times by 2050. Thermally driven cooling technology is an alternative solution to electric heat pumps in removing hazardous refrigerants and harnessing renewables and waste heat. We highlight the advantages of water-stable microporous aluminum-carboxylate-based metal-organic frameworks, or Al-MOFs, as sorbents in the application of producing cold from heat. Here, we synthesize the Al-MOFs with green and scalable processes, which are prerequisites for exploring various industrial and civil applications. A proof-of-concept full-scale adsorption chiller with different Al-MOFs is built up with optimized configurations derived from various characterization techniques. The tested Al-MOFs achieve thermal efficiency above 0.6 and specific cooling power over 1 kW/kg in typical cooling scenarios. Notably, when solar thermal energy is used as the heat source in an outdoor validation, Al-MOFs are weather-resilient solutions that exhibit a stable energy conversion efficiency under fluctuating operating conditions (ambient temperature and solar irradiation).

Published in Cell Reports Physical Science

ISSN: 2666-3864 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Science: Physics
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