Progress on adsorption heat pumps

Abstract Adsorption heat-pump and refrigeration systems present many interesting characteristics such as noiseless, non-corrosive and environmentally friendly components; besides, adsorption machines efficiently use heat as primary energy. For these reasons the research activities in this sector are still increasing to solve the crucial points that make these systems not yet for the market. In this paper an update of the research trends is presented. The results and the most important recommendations are mainly related to improving the heat transfer inside the machine, to find an economic compromise between mass and heat transfer and to practically realize efficient and cheap regenerative systems.

[1]  F. Meunier,et al.  Effect of operating temperatures on the coefficient of performance of active carbon-methanol systems , 1988 .

[2]  J. J. Guilleminot,et al.  Heat and mass transfer in a non-isothermal fixed bed solid adsorbent reactor: a uniform pressure-non-uniform temperature case , 1987 .

[3]  G. Cacciola,et al.  Pompe di calore ad adsorbimento di vapor d'acqua su zeolite , 1987 .

[4]  Giovanni Restuccia,et al.  Zeolite heat pump for domestic heating , 1988 .

[5]  Giovanni Restuccia,et al.  Economic comparison between adsorption and compression heat pumps , 1990 .

[6]  Günter P. Merker,et al.  Periodic high-temperature heat pumps for industrial heat recovery—part I. fundamentals☆ , 1991 .

[7]  N. Douss,et al.  Etude experimentale de cycles a cascades a adsorption solide , 1988 .

[8]  Giovanni Restuccia,et al.  Fast simple and accurate measurement of zeolite thermal conductivity , 1990 .

[9]  Sam V. Shelton,et al.  Gas fired sorption heat pump development , 1993 .

[10]  H. Sahnoune,et al.  Mesure de la conductivité thermique d'une zéolithe , 1989 .

[11]  Sam V. Shelton.  Resedential space conditioning with solid sorption technology , 1993 .

[12]  J. J. Guilleminot,et al.  Heat transfer intensification in fixed bed adsorbers , 1993 .

[13]  William M. Worek,et al.  Simulation of a regenerative, closed-cycle adsorption cooling/heating system , 1991 .

[14]  Carmine Colella,et al.  Thermal conductivity of natural zeolite-PTFE composites , 1992 .

[15]  William J. Wepfer,et al.  Square wave analysis of the solid-vapor adsorption heat pump , 1989 .

[16]  William J. Wepfer,et al.  Ramp Wave Analysis of the Solid/Vapor Heat Pump , 1990 .

[17]  S. Mauran,et al.  Heat and mass transfer in consolidated reacting beds for thermochemical systems , 1993 .

[18]  F. Meunier,et al.  Second law analysis of a solid adsorption heat pump operating on reversible cascade cycles: Application to the Zeolite-water pair , 1985 .

[19]  D. I. Tchernev,et al.  High-efficiency regenerative zeolite heat pump , 1988 .

[20]  F. Meunier,et al.  Experimental results of a zeolite-water heat pump installed in a slaughter house , 1992 .

[21]  F. Meunier,et al.  Predictive model and experimental results for a two-adsorber solid adsorption heat pump , 1988 .

[22]  R. E. Critoph.  Performance limitations of adsorption cycles for solar cooling , 1988 .

[23]  J. Vőlkl,et al.  HEAT CONDUCTION IN ZEOLITE BEDS , 1982 .