Improvement of an existing solar powered absorption cooling system by means of dynamic simulation and experimental diagnosis

Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 4109-4118

  Palacin F ^a,b   Monne C ^b   Alonso, S ^b  

^a CENER   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Absorption cooling; Heat rejection sink; Solar cooling; Solar energy

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING SYSTEMS; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; HEAT SINKS; SOLAR ENERGY; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

DYNAMIC SIMULATION MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GEOTHERMAL HEAT; HEAT REJECTION; MODEL RESULTS; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT; SIMULATION MODEL; SOLAR COOLING; SOLAR COOLING SYSTEMS; SOLAR-POWERED; VALIDATION MODEL;

ABSORPTION COOLING;

ABSORPTION; GEOTHERMAL POWER; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOLAR POWER;

ARAGON; SPAIN; ZARAGOZA;

EID: 79959379814     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2011.04.035     Document Type: Article

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