Importance of Pre-cooling and Pre-heating on Performances of One Bed Adsorption Cooling Systems with Activated Carbon-ethanol Pair

摘要

This paper presents theoretical and experimental investigation of an adsorption cooling system to predict the cycle performance of one bed adsorber based on the equilibrium condition. For this particular study, activated carbon-ethanol pair was chosen as the adsorbent-refrigerant pair because of a high adsorption capacity of activated carbons against ethanol. The experiment was conducted on five different pre-cooling and pre-heating settings. The experiments carried out were divided to two sections. First, the preliminary experiments were carried out on two extreme conditions. For the first extreme condition, the adsorption and desorption process Were carried out without pre-cooling and pre-heating. Whilst for the second extreme condition, the dsorbent was pre-cooled and pre-heated until the adsorbent reach adsorption and desorption temperature. Then the experiments were carried out with three different time of pre-cooling/pre-heating time which was selected based on the preliminary experiments. The heat balance were analyzed critically and the optimum cycle time, namely the pre-cooling and pre-heating time for each adsorption and desorption process is discussed by identifying the suitable adsorbent pressure and temperature of the system.