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Development of Low Temperature Waste Heat Driven Advanced Adsorption Refrigeration System

Research Project

Project/Area Number 10555066
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section展開研究
Research Field Thermal engineering
Research InstitutionTokyo University of Agriculture & Technology

Principal Investigator

KASHIWAGI Takao  Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Professor, 工学部, 教授 (10092545)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) AKISAWA Atsushi  Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Associate Professor, 工学部, 助教授 (10272634)
SAHA Bidyut Baran  Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Assistant Professor, 工学部, 助手 (20293011)
Project Period (FY) 1998 – 1999
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1999)
Budget Amount *help
¥11,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥11,900,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥2,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥9,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥9,700,000)
KeywordsAdsorption / Refrigerator / Silica-gel water / Heat pump / Wasteheat / Air-conditioning / Low-temperatureheat / 低温駆動 / シリカゲルー水 / 冷凍 / シリカゲル / 水
Research Abstract

Experiments were conducted on a 3.5 kW rated capacity two-stage, advanced silica gel-water adsorption chiller to determine the influence of operating conditions (water temperatures and water mass flow rates) on cooling capacity and COP. The standard operating temperatures for hot, cooling and chilled water are respectively taken as 55℃, 30℃ and14℃. Experimental temperature profiles of the heat transfer fluid inlets and outlets showed that after 400 s, the hot and the cooling water temperatures approach their respective inlet temperatures. This led us to select the standard adsorption/desorption cycle time as 420 s. The chilled water temperature, however, continues to be lower than the inlet temperature in the whole cycle, which means that there is still cooling energy production. Experiments were performed by varying hot water temperatures between 50 and 64℃ to determine its effect on cooling capacity and COP. Cooling capacity rises as the inlet hot water temperature rises from 50 to 6 … More 0℃ with a cooling water at 30℃. This is because the amount of refrigerant circulation increases due to increased refrigerant desorption with higher driving source temperatures. With hot water temperature variation, the COP peaks between 55 and 58℃ shows that this temperature range is ideal for the chiller to operate effectively. Experiments were conducted on cooling capacity and COP variations with various heat sink temperatures. Both cooling capacity and COP increase with lower cooling water temperatures. This tendency reflects the facts that lower adsorption temperature result in larger amounts of refrigerant being adsorbed. Experimental results for chilled water temperature variations showed that cooling capacity and COP increase linearly with increasing chilled water inlet temperatures. But the delivered chilled water temperature also increases with increasing chilled water inlet temperatures. Experiments were also performed on cooling capacity and COP variations with various flow rates of hot water, cooling water and chilled water. Experimental data indicate that cooling capacity increases steadily with the increase of hot, cooling and chilled water flow rates in the range studied. COP also has the similar tendency of cooling capacity. From the experimental evidence it can be concluded that the advanced two-stage chiller is well suited to utilize low-temperature thermal heat (〜55℃) as the driving source with a cooling source of 30℃. The technological difficulty inherent in operating a cycle with such a small regenerating temperature lift (temperature difference between driving source and sink) is overcome by use of a two-stage chiller. Less

Report

(3 results)
  • 1999 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1998 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (3 results)

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All Publications (3 results)

  • [Publications] B. B. Saha, A. akisawa, T. Kashiwagi, K. C. Ng, and H. T. Chua: "Non-Regenerative Multi-Stage and Regenerative Multi-Bed Adsorption Cycles for Low-Temperature Waste Heat Recovery"Proceedings of the Symposium on Energy Engineering in the 21st century. 3. 1145-1152 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] B. B. Saha, A. Akisawa, T. Kashiwagi, K, C. Ng, and H. T. Chua: "Non-Regenerative Multi-Stage and Regenerative Multi-Bed Adsorption Cycles for Low-Temperature Waste Heat Recovery"Proceedings of the Symposium on Energy Engineering in the 21st century, Vol. 3, pp. 1145-1152 Hong Kong, January. (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] B.B.Saha, A.Akisawa, T.Kashiwagi, K.C.Ng, and H.T.Chua: "Non-Regenerative Multi-Stage and Regenerative Multi-Bed Adsorption Cycles for Low-Temperature Waste Heat Recovery"Proceedings of the Symposium on Energy Engineering in the 21st century. vol.3. 1145-1152 (2000)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1998-04-01   Modified: 2021-04-07  

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