Performance analysis of activated carbon + HFC-134a adsorption coolers

The purpose of this paper is to present the results of performance analysis of a heat driven continuous vapor adsorption refrigerator with activated carbon as the adsorbent and 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (HFC-134a) as the refrigerant. A set of four adsorption cells takes on the role of the mechanical compressor in the conventional vapor compression refrigeration (VCR) system. Three specimens of activated charcoal under various packing densities were investigated. A parametric analysis was carried out with several evaporating, condensing/adsorbing and desorbing temperatures which are typical operating conditions catered to by HFC-134a. A new integrated relative performance evaluation scheme is proposed. It uses the maximum cycle uptake difference as a factor against which the coefficient of performance (COP) and exergetic efficiency are evaluated. It is shown that there is an optimal set of operating conditions wherein the exergetic efficiency is the maximum. A major part of the thermal energy input is for sensible heating of the compressor body.     

The performance of two adsorption ice making test units using activated carbon and a carbon composite as adsorbents

The available adsorption working pairs applied to adsorption refrigeration system, which utilize activated carbon as adsorbent, are mainly activated carbon-methanol, activated carbon-ammonia, and composite adsorbent-ammonia. The adsorption properties and refrigeration application of these three types of adsorption working pairs are investigated. For the physical adsorbents, consolidated activated carbon showed best heat transfer performance, and activated carbon-methanol showed the best adsorption property because of the large refrigerant amount that can be adsorbed. For the composite adsorbents, the consolidated composite adsorbent with mass ratio of 4:1 between CaCl₂ and activated carbon, showed the highest cooling density when compared to the granular composite adsorbent and to the merely chemical adsorbent. The physical adsorption icemaker that employs consolidated activated carbon-methanol as working pair had the optimum coefficient of refrigeration performance (COP), volume cooling power density (SCP_v) and specific cooling power per kilogram adsorbent (SCP) of 0.125, 9.25 kW/m³ and 32.6 W/kg, respectively. The composite adsorption system that employs the consolidated composite adsorbent had a maximum COP, SCP_v and SCP of 0.35, 52.68 kW/m³ and 493.2 W/kg, respectively, for ice making mode. These results are improved by 1.8, 4.7 and 14 times, respectively, when compared to the results of the physical adsorption icemaker.     

Characteristics of an activated carbon monolith for a helium adsorption compressor

An activated carbon monolith (ACM) with a high helium adsorption/desorption capacity, high density, low pressure drop, low thermal expansion and good mechanical properties was prepared and applied successfully in a helium adsorption compressor as a part of a 4.5 K sorption cooler. The activated carbon (AC) used in the monolith preparation was selected from a series of ACs prepared from an anthracite and bituminous coals activated using KOH, NaOH and CO₂, and having a variety of surface areas, micropore size distributions and packing densities. The selected AC was combined with a binder to prepare an ACM with suitable mechanical properties for machining. The results of this study, related to an helium sorption compressor includes: packing density, mechanical properties (compression strength, vibration tests), thermal expansion, pressure-drop measurements and also helium adsorption isotherms measured at high pressure (up to 35 bar) and low temperatures (from 20 K up to 150 K).     

硅胶粒径对太阳能吸附制冷系统性能的影响

针对以硅胶-水为工质对的太阳能吸附式制冷系统,实验研究了不同粒径的硅胶材料对吸附床传热传质特性及系统制冷能力的影响。三组对比实验的硅胶材料平均粒径分别为1mm、3mm和5mm,在太阳辐射接近的条件下完成实验测试,结果表明粒径中等的硅胶材料表现最优,其制冷系数COP和按照循环周期定义的比制冷功率SCP2均最高。小粒径材料虽然使吸附剂填充量有所增加,但是会导致吸附床轴向传质阻力增加,影响其末端吸附能力的发挥。而材料的粒径过大,则会降低吸附床的吸附剂填充量及其传热性能,从而导致预热脱附和冷却过程的时间延长,不利于系统的制冷性能改善。实验结果表明,吸附剂粒径是影响太阳能吸附式制冷系统工作性能的一个重要因素,在系统设计中需要给予重视。     

Tuning porosity of coal-derived activated carbons for CO2 adsorption

A simple method was developed to tune the porosity of coal-derived activated carbons, which provided a model adsorbent system to investigate the volumetric CO₂ adsorption performance. Specifically, the method involved the variation of the activation temperature in a K₂CO₃ induced chemical activation process which could yield activated carbons with defined microporous (< 2 nm, including ultra-microporous < 1 nm) and meso-micro-porous structures. CO₂ adsorption isotherms revealed that the microporous activated carbon has the highest measured CO₂ adsorption capacity (6.0 mmol∙g^–1 at 0 °C and 4.1 mmol∙g^–1 at 25 °C), whilst ultra-microporous activated carbon with a high packing density exhibited the highest normalized capacity with respect to packing volume (1.8 mmol∙cm⁻³ at 0 °C and 1.3 mmol∙cm^–3 at 25 °C), which is significant. Both experimental correlation analysis and molecular dynamics simulation demonstrated that (i) volumetric CO₂ adsorption capacity is directly proportional to the ultra-micropore volume, and (ii) an increase in micropore sizes is beneficial to improve the volumetric capacity, but may lead a low CO₂ adsorption density and thus low pore space utilization efficiency. The adsorption experiments on the activated carbons established the criterion for designing CO₂ adsorbents with high volumetric adsorption capacity.     

Adsorption equilibria between dye and surfactant in single and binary systems onto geological materials

Adsorption characteristics of cationic dyes and surfactants onto clay and sandstone from a single component system were studied using toluidine blue (TB) and cetyl trimethylammonium bromide (CTAB). Equilibrium data of TB and CTAB in the single solute systems fit well to the Langmuir and the Freundlich adsorption isotherms. Competitive adsorption was observed between dye and surfactant cations. The effect of sodium chloride on dye and surfactant adsorption was studied in TB–NaCl and CTAB–NaCl binary systems. Equilibrium adsorption for binary systems was analyzed by using the extended Langmuir and the extended Freundlich models. Adsorption results for the TB–CTAB system onto both adsorbents were also well described by the Sheindorf–Rebuhn–Sheintuch (SRS) model for multi-component systems. Free energy changes for adsorption systems were calculated using thermodynamic equilibrium constants evaluated from selectivity coefficients of the binary systems. The site distribution functions estimated using Freundlich model parameters gave valuable information about the ratio of the adsorption sites on adsorbent surface having different affinity for competing cations.     

天然气吸附存储用高比表面积活性炭研究进展

综述了物理法、化学法和化学-物理法制备高比表面积活性炭的研究进展,归纳了多粒径混装、粘结剂压制和无粘结剂压制成型3种降低空间体积,提高活性炭颗粒密度的成型方法,介绍了成型活性炭在天然气吸附存储中国内外研究进展,讨论了天然气吸附剂存在的问题、不足以及相应的解决方法。     

固体吸附-蒸汽喷射式联合制冷循环热力分析

将吸附发生器产生的制冷剂蒸汽先进行蒸汽喷射制冷后再进行吸附制冷 ,形成的固体吸附 -蒸汽喷射式联合制冷循环具有较高的性能系数 .对联合循环的热力过程进行了分析 ,并对工作参数对联合循环制冷性能的影响进行了研究 ,结果表明这种联合制冷循环较适用于由高温余热驱动的制冷系统 .     

新型吸附床的研究进展

吸附床是吸附式制冷装置的核心部件,其性能的优劣直接关系到吸附式制冷装置的制冷效果.通过吸附床的热阻分析,得出强化吸附床传热的措施.文中重点介绍了提高吸附剂与换热壁面的换热系数和吸附剂间的导热系数来强化吸附床传热的方法,详细介绍了填充式吸附床、涂抹式吸附床以及固化式吸附床的结构特点,比较分析3种吸附床的传热传质特点,并阐...     

Effect of Adsorbent Diameter on the Performance of Adsorption Refrigeration

Adsorbents are important components in adsorption refrigeration. The diameter of an adsorbent can af-fect the heat and mass transfer of an adsorber. The effect of particle diameter on effective thermal conductivity was investigated. The heat transfer coefficient of the refrigerant and the void rate of the adsorbent layer can also affect the effective thermal conductivity of adsorbents. The performance of mass transfer in the adsorber is better when pressure drop decreases. Pressure drop decreases with increasing permeability. The permeability of the adsorbent layer can be improved with increasing adsorbent diameter. The effect of adsorbent diameter on refrigeration output power was experimentally studied. Output power initially increases and then decreases with increasing diameter under different cycle time conditions. Output power increases with decreasing cycle time under similar diameters.     

固体吸附制冷吸附剂的研究进展

简述了固体吸附制冷系统的基本循环原理;综述了近年来国内外在吸附制冷吸附剂方面的研究成果。提出了选用安全、无毒吸附质,开发适合于吸附制冷特点的吸附剂,研究性能良好的、环保型吸附工质对是推动固体吸附制冷技术工业化的关键。     

Al2O3纳米流体动态喷射真空制冰特性

配制溶质为Al₂O₃纳米粒子、黄原胶为分散剂,经超声波振荡后分散均匀稳定的Al₂O₃-H₂O纳米流体。利用真空动态喷射制冰实验装置,设定初始压力300 Pa,研究在有无固体吸附作用、不同纳米流体浓度、不同纳米颗粒粒径和不同供液流量下的真空闪蒸制冰特性。结果表明,吸附作用对真空制冰系统稳压效果显著且有助于捕捉实验中的水蒸气;当冷却介质温度低于吸附剂初始温度时,吸附剂有更好的吸附能力但冷却温度不宜过低;纳米流体浓度越大、纳米粒子粒径越小,更利于制取高含冰率的冰浆;对于同一浓度的纳米流体,合理控制供液流量可以获得不同含冰率的冰浆;在2%（质量）NaCl下,各粒径的纳米流体浓度不宜超过0.05%（质量）。     

化学聚合法强化吸附剂热传导

采用化学聚合法强化吸附剂——沸石颗粒的热传导性能,利用苯胺单体在沸石颗粒表面氧化聚合,使少量的聚苯胺形成均匀连续的导热性能好的高分子材料网,在实验条件下可使该种吸附剂的有效导热系数提高到原来的4倍多。同时,将强化后的吸附剂挤压成型,进行强化吸附床层的传热研究,结果表明堆积密度为原来的1.5倍的成型块,其有效导热系数比原来提高30％,对比混合法的实验和数据分析表明,化学聚合法较物理混合法效果更明显,是一种适宜吸附剂热传导强化的新途径。     

Performance analysis of an adsorption refrigerator using activated carbon in a compound adsorbent

To improve the performance of the adsorption refrigeration of CaCl₂-ammonia adsorption system, activated carbon has been distributed uniformly in the mass of CaCl₂, thereby helping to enhance mass transfer and uplift the cooling power density. A multifunctional heat pipe adsorption refrigerator, in which activated carbon-CaCl₂ is used as compound adsorbent and ammonia as refrigerant, is designed. Water and acetone are used as working liquids for the heat pipe. This paper presents a study on the adsorption refrigeration performances of this adsorption refrigerator under two different working conditions, ice-maker for fishing boat driven by the waste heat from exhaust gases, and solar ice-maker driven by solar water heating. The obtained average SCP (specific cooling power) and the COP (coefficient of performance) of the refrigerator were measured to be 770.4 W/kg and 0.39 at about −20 °C of evaporating temperature for the former working condition, and they were 161.2 W/kg and 0.12 at about −15 °C of evaporating temperature for the later working condition.     

化学吸附制冷用氯化锶复合吸附剂的制冷性能

对以SrCl₂、活性炭为吸附剂,NH₃为制冷剂所组成的吸附式制冷工质对的吸附性能进行了研究。拟解决SrCl₂吸附剂颗粒强度不高、长期使用后易出现膨胀粉化、吸附床传热传质性能下降等问题,将SrCl₂分别与活性炭、CaSO₄按质量比4∶1复配,进行吸附制冷性能实验。并对SrCl₂的吸附机理及CaSO₄的胶凝作用进行了探讨。实验结果表明：温度是过程的控制因素,在100℃时,SrCl₂/活性炭、SrCl₂/CaSO₄复合吸附剂的单位脱胶凝剂基吸附剂制冷量分别是SrCl₂的2.1倍和1.4倍。对吸附剂比表面积及孔结构进行表征,结果显示：SrCl₂/CaSO₄复合吸附剂的比表面积和孔结构保持良好;SrCl₂/活性炭复合吸附剂的比表面积和孔容明显增大,孔结构得到了改善。     

Adsorption Refrigeration Performance of Shaped MIL-101-Water Working Pair

A new metal-organic framework of MIL-101 was synthesized by hydrothermal method and the powder prepared was pressed into a desired shape. The effects of molding on specific surface area and pore structure were investigated using a nitrogen adsorption method. The water adsorption isotherms were obtained by high vacuum gravimetric method, the desorption temperature of water on shaped MIL-101 was measured by thermo gravimetric analyzer, and the adsorption refrigeration performance of shaped MIL-101-water working pair was studied on the simulation device of adsorption refrigeration cycle system. The results indicate that an apparent hysteresis loop ap-pears in the nitrogen adsorption/desorption isotherms when the forming pressure is 10 MPa. The equilibrium ad-sorption capacity of water is up to 0.95 kg·kg^-1 at the forming pressure of 3 MPa （MIL-101-3）. The desorption peak temperature of water on MIL-101-3 is 82℃, which is 7 ℃ lower than that of silica gel, and the desorption temperature is no more than 100 ℃. At the evaporation temperature of 10 ℃, the refrigeration capacity of MIL-101-3-water is 1059 kJ·kg^-1, which is 2.24 times higher than that of silica gel-water working pair. Thus MIL-101-water working pair presents an excellent adsorption refrigeration performance.     

Elucidation of the ion binding mechanism in heterogeneous carbon-composite adsorbents

A two-stage analysis of the mechanism of metal ion binding by a heterogeneous adsorbent was developed. In the first stage, a continuous proton affinity distribution was calculated from potentiometric titration data using the CONTIN method with a Langmuir kernel. Electrostatic effects were accounted for using a diffuse layer model. In the second stage, the parameters obtained from the continuous distribution function (i.e. the number of different types of surface sites, site densities and their protonation constants) were utilized in a discrete distribution to represent the adsorbent in surface complexation and double layer models using the GRFIT speciation code. This information on the surface groups was applied to metal ion potentiometric titration experiments to calculate the surface complexation equilibrium constants of the metal ions and hence elucidate the mechanism of ion binding to these sites. The proposed method was applied successfully to the adsorption of Sr and Cu ions on carbon-composite adsorbents, KAU-mod and SCN-mod. The continuous distribution method (CONTIN) revealed three types of surface sites within these carbon-composite adsorbents with pK values ranging between 3.5–4.1, 5.3–6.3 and 7.7–8.2. The analysis of the metal ion adsorption data using the GRFIT speciation code showed that only the first two surface sites were capable of forming surface complexes with the Sr ions, and that only the first site governed the adsorption of the Cu ions.     

耦合吸附吸收(ADAB)系统性能实验研究

针对现有吸附式热泵应用研究中单组分循环工质对操作压力过高或过低的现状 ,提出一种新型的混合吸附工质对———分子筛、水和氨 ,构成耦合吸附吸收 (ADAB)系统。实验研究发现 :ADAB系统可在接近大气压环境下实现吸附解吸循环 ,为吸附式热泵系统工业化可行性提供条件。通过实验分析讨论了影响ADAB系统性能的结构参数及操作参数 ,为系统优化提供理论基础     

吸附-吸收复叠式三效制冷循环

提出一种以沸石 -水为工质对的单效吸附式制冷单元为高温级、以双效溴化锂吸收式制冷单元为低温级的吸附 -吸收复叠式三效制冷循环 .高温热源首先加热吸附式单元 ,通过能量在系统中的多效利用 ,从而提高系统性能系数 (COP) .相比于三效溴化锂吸收式制冷循环 ,复叠式循环中吸附式单元工质对温度高于 2 0 0℃时 ,也不会腐蚀材质 ,因而是一种工程上易于实现的新型制冷循环 .对该循环的热力性能进行了研究     

Analysis of agglomerated packings

Results of computer simulation of the packing of particles in compacts from agglomerated powders are presented. The effect of the characteristics of agglomerated powders, such as the number of particles in the agglomerates, the size distribution of agglomerates, and the volume share of the fine fraction (individual particles) on the factors that determine the sinterability of compacts, i.e., the density, the mean number of contacts per particle, and the mean size and the mean coordination number of the pores, is investigated. It is established that compared to compacts from individual particles the presence of agglomerates sharply worsens the packing characteristics. The worst effect is due to agglomerates containing less that 30 – 40 particles. The packing characteristics can be improved by using powders with a wide size distribution of agglomerates or by adding unagglomerated particles. It is interesting that computer models of powder compacts can be used for predicting the strength properties of the materials sintered from these powders. Data on the influence of the packing characteristics on the mean strength and the Weibull modulus are presented.Translated from Ogneupory, No. 4, pp. 14–17, April, 1995.