Cooling Performance of a Combined Solar Thermoelectric-Adsorption Cooling System: An Experimental Study

摘要

A novel solar thermoelectric-adsorption cooling system was built and tested at eight different days. Cooling is produced via the Peltier effect during the day, by means of thermoelectric elements, and through adsorption process at night. The coefficient of performance (COP) values were determined using derived equations, the average COP values of the overall system are ～0.131 (adsorption) and ～0.152 (thermoelectric), respectively.