Study of various adsorbent-refrigerant pairs for the application of solar driven adsorption cooling in tropical climates

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 266-274

  Habib, Khairul ^a   Saha, Bidyut Baran ^b   Koyama, Shigeru ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activated carbon; Adsorption; Cooling; Silica gel; Solar thermal

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; CARBON; CARBON FIBERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; METEOROLOGY; REFRIGERANTS; SILICA; SILICA GEL; SOLAR ENERGY;

ADSORPTION COOLING; ADSORPTION-DESORPTION CYCLES; ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATIONS; COEFFICIENT OF PERFORMANCE; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; REGENERATION TEMPERATURE; SOLAR THERMAL; TROPICAL CLIMATES;

COOLING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84911365827     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2014.05.102     Document Type: Article

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