Abstract

A three-dimensional numerical analysis was conducted to examine the effect on performance of un-balanced heating/cooling water supply and nonuniform pressure distribution in the beds, issues observed in an experiment by our colleague during the development of a 35[Formula: see text]kW prototype finned-tube type adsorption chiller. Case studies were conducted with reference values of [Formula: see text][Formula: see text]m/s, [Formula: see text][Formula: see text]Pa and [Formula: see text][Formula: see text]Pa, and the differences in [Formula: see text][Formula: see text]m/s, [Formula: see text][Formula: see text]Pa and [Formula: see text][Formula: see text]Pa. A remarkable increase in COP was found for the cases of un-balanced heating water supply and nonuniform pressure distribution when the bed was connected to the evaporator. However, after integration of multi-modules, the effect was smoothed out, which removed the worry about the degradation in the overall COP. The effect of un-balanced cooling water supply and nonuniform pressure distribution when the bed was connected to the condenser was not discernible. In all cases, the change in SCP was negligible.

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