K. C. Amanul Alam

Autonomous Adsorption Cooling - Driven by Heat Storage Collected from Solar Heat

This study investigates the performance of an adsorption chiller driven by thermal heat collected from solar collectors’ panels with heat storage. The heat is reserved in a storage tank and the reserved heat is used to drive the adsorption chiller. The investigation was carried on the climatic conditions of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Heat transfer fluid goes from the collectors to the adsorption cooling unit, then from the adsorption cooling unit to the storage tank. It is seen that heat storage is more effective than direct solar coupling; however, it requires more collectors, depending on the size of the storage tank. The analysis shows that cycle time is one of the most influential parameters for the solar-driven adsorption cooling system. It is seen that the size of the collector can be reduced if the proper cycle time is adjusted. The analysis also revealed that the system with 22 collectors (each of 2.415 m2) along with 1000 s cycle time provides better performance for the base run conditions. It is also seen that the solar-driven adsorption chiller with heat storage works well beyond the sunset time.

The effect of mass recovery adsorption cooling cycle to optimize the collector number and time allocation

The performance of mass recovery for solar adsorption cooling system has been investigated numerically. Solar adsorption cooling appears to have a prospect in tropical region. Though it has a huge installation cost, its long term payback could be a considerable fact. Mass recovery scheme increases Average Cooling Capacity (ACC) and Coefficient of Performance (COP) values of the adsorption cooling system. In intension to reduce cost and maximize system performance, a two bed solar driven conventional cooling system run by silica gel and water along with mass recovery process has been investigated mathematically.

Improvement of COP with Heat Recovery Scheme for Solar Adsorption Cooling System

Heat recovery ensures optimum usage of the collected energy, and thus, minimizes heat loss for a solar adsorption chiller. Two-bed adsorption chiller with conventional single stage, run by direct s...

Utilizing Accessible Heat Enhancing Cooling Effect with Three Bed Solar Adsorption Chiller

ABSTRACT Conventional solar heat-driven single stage two bed chillers demand a large area for installation of solar thermal collector to activate the chiller, but in a highly populated tropical country open spaces is insufficient. In the intention to utilize accessible solar energy with better performance, a mathematical investigation is carried out with a three bed adsorption cooling unit working with silica gel-water pair. The studied chiller is powered by direct solar heat collected by a series of compound parabolic concentrator solar thermal collectors without any heat or mass recovery. The working principal of the chiller is, in principle, the same as the conventional two-bed adsorption chiller. However, instead of two half cycles, there are three one third cycles in the proposed chiller in which at every cycle the former desorber is kept in the precooling mode and as an adsorber for the next two one third cycles, respectively. As desorption kinetic is faster than the adsorption kinetics, this longer precooling mode helps the silica gel granules to adsorb more water molecules and increase evaporation rate. Hence, a better cooling effect of at least 1°C can be observed, increases chiller working hour after sunset for almost a further one hour.