Solar cooling technologies: State of art and perspectives

A Alahmer, S Ajib - Energy Conversion and Management, 2020 - Elsevier
The energy demand for cooling and air conditioning systems is increasing worldwide,
especially in regions with high solar radiation intensity. One of the reasons for this is the …

An overview of modelling techniques employed for performance simulation of low–grade heat operated adsorption cooling systems

RP Sah, B Choudhury, RK Das, A Sur - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2017 - Elsevier
With increasing social and economic developmental activities, high grade energy sources
are depleting at faster rate and also inviting menace of environmental problems. Therefore …

Performance evaluation of a solar adsorption chiller under different climatic conditions

A Alahmer, X Wang, R Al-Rbaihat, KCA Alam, BB Saha - Applied Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Performance of an adsorption cooling system driven by solar thermal energy was studied
under different climatic conditions. The effects of solar collector area, collector slope, hot …

A review on low grade heat powered adsorption cooling systems for ice production

RP Sah, B Choudhury, RK Das - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
Due to the ecological problems and energy crisis in the world, the development of
sustainable energy utilization systems has attracted more attention. An adsorption ice maker …

Comparison of different solar-assisted air conditioning systems for Australian office buildings

Y Ma, SC Saha, W Miller, L Guan - Energies, 2017 - mdpi.com
This study has investigated the feasibility of three different solar-assisted air conditioning
systems for typical medium-sized office buildings in all eight Australian capital cities using …

[PDF][PDF] A Study on Adsorption Refrigerator Driven by Solar Collector Using Indonesian Activated Carbon.

TB Sitorus, FH Napitupulu, H Ambarita - Journal of Engineering & …, 2017 - academia.edu
In the present work, the performance of an adsorption refrigerator driven by a solar collector
was investigated. The adsorbent used in this study was 6.5 kg ordinary granular activated …

A non-tracking concentrating collector for solar thermal applications

W Ratismith, Y Favre, M Canaff, J Briggs - Applied energy, 2017 - Elsevier
We report the development of a solar thermal collector module based on our proposed
design (Ratismith et. al., 2014) of a large acceptance-angle multiple-parabolic trough which …

[PDF][PDF] Experimental study of solar refrigerator system using activated alumina and methanol adsorption pair

TB Sitorus, FH Napitupulu… - International Journal of …, 2016 - researchgate.net
This study investigates the performance of a solar adsorption refrigerator using activated
alumina and methanol adsorption pair. The experiments were carried out for 24-hour. The …

Experimental and computational fluid dynamics investigations of tracking CPC solar collectors

G Yuan, J Fan, W Kong, S Furbo, B Perers, F Sallaberry - Solar Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
The aim of the paper was to investigate thermal performance of two newly developed 15.4 m
2 compound parabolic concentrator (CPC) solar collectors both theoretically and …

Effect of relative humidity on thermal conductivity of zeolite-based adsorbents: Theory and experiments

S Hanif, M Sultan, T Miyazaki - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Effective thermal conductivity (ETC) of the adsorbent is an important parameter which
influences the performance of the adsorption heat pump and adsorption cooling systems …