Cooling output performance of a prototype adsorption heat pump with fin-type silica gel tube module

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 87-93

  Kubota, Mitsuhiro ^a   Ueda, Takeshi ^a   Fujisawa, Ryo ^a   Kobayashi, Jun ^a   Watanabe, Fujio ^b   Kobayashi, Noriyuki ^a   Hasatani, Masanobu ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AICHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adsorption heat pump; Cooling output; COP; FST module; Silica gel; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; AIR CONDITIONING; COOLING; OPTIMIZATION; SILICA GEL; WATER VAPOR;

ADSORPTION HEAT PUMPS; HEAT UTILIZATION SYSTEMS; SILICA GEL TUBES;

HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS;

EID: 35348910339     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2007.04.014     Document Type: Article

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