AN ADSORPTION CHILLER DRIVEN BY THERMOELECTRICITY

摘要

A thermoelectrically driven adsorption chiller that symbiotically combines adsorption and thermoelectric cooling devices has been developed. The seemingly low efficiency of each cycle individually is overcome by an amalgamation with the other. In this paper, we have proposed an improved design of a thermo-electrically driven adsorption cooling cycle, which makes use of the effects of regenerative condenser and additional thermoelectric devices to improve the chiller coefficient of performance. The virtues of this improved designs are; (a) scale independence, amenable to chiller miniaturization and system compactness; (b) lack of moving parts; (c) comparatively higher COP; and (d) the use of non-toxic environmentally-friendly materials.