Improving the Performance of the Adsorption Cooling Cycle Using Heat and Mass Recovery Techniques

Abstract

This paper aims to improve the performance of an adsorption cooling cycle using heat and mass recovery techniques. Basic design parameters have been calculated for an adsorptive icemaker that uses activated carbon fibers (BusofitATYM) with ammonia as a working pair, and operates on industrial waste heat at a design condensing temperature of   , a maximum bed temperature of  and a minimum of  . It was found that the coefficient of performance COP in the basic cooling cycle is , the COP increased to 0.308 as a result of heat recovery, increased to 0.385  as a result of mass recovery, and increased to 0.504 as a result of mass heat recovery. Thus, mass heat recovery technique is considered the best in order to obtain the highest performance of the cycle.