Experimental investigation of silica gel-water adsorption chillers with and without a passive heat recovery scheme

International Journal of Refrigeration

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 756-765

  Wang, Xiaolin ^a   Chua, Hui Tong ^b   Ng, Kim Choon ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adsorption systems; COP; Experiment; Heat recovery; Improvement; Silica gel; Water

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; COOLING WATER; ELECTROMAGNETISM; EVAPORATORS; EXPERIMENTS; HEAT TRANSFER; IMPROVEMENT; MASS TRANSFER; RESERVOIR INLETS; SILICA GEL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMISTORS; WASTE HEAT UTILIZATION; WATER;

ADSORPTION SYSTEMS; COEFFICIENT OF PERFORMANCE (COP); DESORBER; FOUR BED ADSORPTION CHILLERS;

COOLING SYSTEMS;

EID: 20144378229     PISSN: 01407007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2004.11.011     Document Type: Article

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