Irreversible absorption heat-pump and its optimal performance

Applied Energy

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 55-71

  Chen, Lingen ^a   Qin, Xiaoyong ^a   Sun, Fengrui ^a   Wu, Chih ^b  

^a NAVAL UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING   (China)

^b UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorption heat pump; Finite time thermodynamics; Heat leak; Heat resistances; Internal irreversibilities

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT RESISTANCE; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMICS;

FINITE-TIME THERMODYNAMICS; HEAT LEAK; HEAT-PUMP CYCLE; OPTIMAL TEMPERATURES;

HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS;

HEAT EXCHANGER; HEAT PUMP; HEAT TRANSFER; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 11144242486     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2004.05.001     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Ziegler F. State of the art in sorption heat pumping-and-cooling technologies. Int J Refrig 2002;25(4):450-9.
2. Sieniutycz S, Shiner JS. Thermodynamics of irreversible processes: relation to the chemical engineer: second law analyses and finite-time thermodynamics. J Non-Equilib Thermodyn 1994;19(4):303-48.
3. Bejan A. Entropy-generation minimization: the new thermodynamics of finite-size devices and finite-time processes. J Appl Phys 1996;79(3):1191-218.
4. Chen L, Wu C, Sun F. Finite-time thermodynamic optimization or entropy-generation minimization of energy systems. J Non-Equilib Thermodyn 1999;24(4):327-59.
5. Berry RS, Kazakov VA, Sieniutycz S, Szwast Z, Tsirlin AM. Thermodynamic optimization of finite-time processes. Chichester: Wiley; 1999.
6. Gordon JM, Ng KC. Cool thermodynamics. Cambridge: Cambridge Int. Science Publishers; 2000.
7. Chen J, Yan Z. Equivalent combined systems of three-heat-reservoir heat-pumps. J Chem Phys 1989;90(9):4951-5.
8. Chen J, Yan Z. Unified description of endoreversible cycles. Phys Rev A 1989;39(8):4140-7.
9. Herold K.E. Performance predictions of absorption cycles using an endo-reversible model. In: International Sorption Heat-pump Conference, Munich; 1999. p. 1-6.
10. Goktun S. The effect of irreversibilites on the performance of a three-heat-source heat-pump. J Phys D 1996;29(20):2823-5.
11. Chen J. Optimal performance analysis of irreversible cycles used as heat pumps and refrigerators. J Phys D 1997;30(4):582-7.
12. Chen L, Wu C, Sun F. Optimal coefficient of performance and heating load relationship of a three-heat-reservoir endoreversible heat-pump. Energy Convers Manage 1997;38(8):727-33.
13. Chen L, Bi Y, Wu C. Unified description of endoreversible cycles for linear phenomenological heat-transfer law. Int J Energy, Environment and Economics 1999;9(2):77-93.
14. Chen L, Wu C, Sun F, Cao S. Maximum profit performance of a three-heat-reservoir heat-pump. Int J Energy Res 1999;23(9):773-7.
15. Chen J. The general performance characteristics of an irreversible absorption heat-pump operating between four temperature levels. J Phys D 1999;32(12):1428-33.
16. Bejan A. Theory of heat transfer-irreversible power plant. Int J Heat Mass Trans 1988;31(6):1211-9.
17. Bejan A. Theory of heat transfer: irreversible refrigeration plant. Int J Heat Mass Trans 1989;32(9):1631-9.
18. Bejan A, Vargas JVC. Optimal allocation of a heat-exchanger inventory in heat-driven refrigerators. Int J Heat Mass Trans 1995;38(16):2997-3004.
19. Sokolov M, Vargas JVC, Bejan A. Thermodynamic optimization of solar-driven refrigerators. Trans ASME J Sol Energy Eng 1996;118(2):130-5.
20. Chen L, Wu C, Sun F. Heat-pump performance with internal heat-leak. Int J Ambient Energy 1997;18(3):129-34.
21. Ni N, Chen L, Sun F, Wu C. Effect of heat-transfer law on the performance of a generalized irreversible Carnot heat-pump. J Inst Energy 1999;72(491):64-8.
22. Zhu X, Chen L, Sun F, Wu C. Optimal performance of a generalized irreversible Carnot heat-pump with a generalized heat-transfer law. Phys Scripta 2001;64(6):584-7.
23. Wu C. Specific heating load of an endoreversible Carnot heat-pump. Int J Ambient Energy 1993;14(1):25-8.
24. Chen L, Wu C, Sun F. Heat-transfer effect on specific heating load of heat pumps. Appl Thermal Eng 1997;17(1):103-10.