Physical and operating conditions effects on silica gel/water adsorption chiller performance

Applied Energy

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 142-149

  Rezk, Ahmed R M ^a   Al Dadah, Raya K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adsorption chiller; Empirical simulation; Silica gel water

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; COOLING SYSTEMS; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); MATLAB; OPTIMIZATION; POWER QUALITY; REFRIGERATION; SILICA; WASTE HEAT;

ADSORPTION CHILLER; ADSORPTION REFRIGERATION SYSTEM; ANALYTICAL SIMULATIONS; CONVENTIONAL SYSTEMS; COOLING CAPACITY; CYCLE TIME; DESIGN VALUE; ELECTRICAL POWER; EMPIRICAL SIMULATIONS; FIN SPACING; GENERATION TEMPERATURE; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; KEY EQUATION; MAXIMUM COOLING CAPACITY; OPERATING CONDITION; OPTIMISATIONS; OPTIMUM CYCLE TIME; REFPROP; SIMULATION MODEL; THERMO-PHYSICAL PROPERTY; WORKING FLUID;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ADSORPTION; COOLING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SILICA;

EID: 80053337516     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2010.11.021     Document Type: Article

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