Thermodynamic analysis of ideal adsorption cooling system using activated carbon/N-butane pair

Author

Habib, Kareem ; Sitoi, H.

Author_Institution

Mech. Eng. Dept., Univ. Teknol. PETRONAS, Tronoh, Malaysia

fYear

2012

fDate

6-9 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

29

Lastpage

32

Abstract

In this article, a thermodynamic analysis of an ideal adsorption cooling system is presented using activated carbon of type Maxsorb III and n-butane as adsorbent-refrigerant pair. The analysis is based on experimentally confirmed adsorption isotherms and isosteric heat of adsorption data for n-butane on pitch based activated carbon (type Maxsorb III). The effects of specific cooling effect (SCE) and coefficient of performance (COP) are analyzed with the variation of heat source temperature. Results indicate that the maximum SCE and COP obtained from activated carbon/n-butane based adsorption cycle are 26 kJ/kg and 0.18, respectively.

Keywords

adsorption; carbon; cooling; refrigerants; thermodynamics; COP; Maxsorb III type; SCE; activated carbon-N-butane pair; adsorbent-refrigerant pair; adsorption cycle; adsorption isotherms; coefficient of performance; heat source temperature; ideal adsorption cooling system; isosteric heat; specific cooling effect; thermodynamic analysis; Adsorption; Heating; Refrigerants; Solids; Adsorption system; maxsorb III; n-butane;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sustainable Utilization and Development in Engineering and Technology (STUDENT), 2012 IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

ISSN

1985-5753

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1649-1

Electronic_ISBN

1985-5753

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/STUDENT.2012.6408358

Filename

6408358