The present work describes a silica gel + water adsorption-based desalination and chiller system, an emerging low cost process of integrating thermal desalination and cooling by utilizing low-grade heat. The cycle employs a combination of flash evaporation and thermal compression of steam in single/two stage to generate the dual effect. The current study aims at simulating a four-bed/stage adsorption system using energy and mass balance along with kinetics of adsorption. The performance of single- and two-stage adsorption systems is compared for ambient temperatures in the range of 25–45 °C and a constant heat source temperature of 85 °C.
Issue Section:
Research Papers
Topics:
Condensers (steam plant),
Cooling,
Cycles,
Heat,
Pressure,
Steam,
Temperature,
Water,
Transient heat transfer
References
1.
Sakoda
, A.
, and Suzuki
, M.
, 1984
, “Fundamental Study on Solar Powered Adsorption Cooling System
,” J. Chem. Eng. Jpn.
, 17
(1
), pp. 52
–57
.2.
Härkönen
, M.
, and Aittomäki
, A.
, 1992
, “Analytical Model for the Thermal Wave Adsorption Heat Pump Cycle
,” Heat Recovery Syst. CHP
, 12
(1
), pp. 73
–80
.3.
Sami
, S. M.
, and Tribes
, C.
, 1996
, “An Improved Model for Predicting the Dynamic Behavior of Adsorption Systems
,” Appl. Therm. Eng.
, 16
(2
), pp. 149
–161
.4.
Chua
, H. T.
, Ng
, K. C.
, Wang
, W.
, Yap
, C.
, and Wang
, X. L.
, 2004
, “Transient Modeling of a Two-Bed Silica Gel–Water Adsorption Chiller
,” Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer
, 47
(4
), pp. 659
–669
.5.
Chua
, H. T.
, Ng
, K. C.
, Malek
, T.
, Kashiwagi
, T.
, Akisawa
, A.
, and Saha
, B. B.
, 1999
, “Modeling the Performance of Two-Bed, Silica Gel-Water Adsorption Chillers
,” Int. J. Refrig.
, 22
(3
), pp. 194
–204
.6.
Qu
, T. F.
, Wang
, R. Z.
, and Wang
, W.
, 2001
, “Study on Heat and Mass Recovery in Adsorption Refrigeration Cycles
,” Appl. Therm. Eng.
, 21
(4
), pp. 439
–452
.7.
Saha
, B. B.
, Koyama
, S.
, Lee
, J. B.
, Kuwahara
, K.
, Alam
, K. C. A.
, Hamamoto
, Y.
, Akisawa
, A.
, and Kashiwagi
, T.
, 2001
, “Performance Evaluation of Low-Temperature Waste Heat Driven Multi-Bed Adsorber Chiller
,” Int. J. Multiphase Flow
, 29
(8
), pp. 1249
–1263
.8.
Miyazaki
, T.
, Akisawa
, A.
, Saha
, B. B.
, El-Sharkawy
, I. I.
, and Chakraborty
, A.
, 2009
, “A New Cycle Time Allocation for Enhancing the Performance of Two-Bed Adsorption Chillers
,” Int. J. Refrig.
, 32
(5
), pp. 846
–863
.9.
Chang
, W. S.
, Wang
, C.-C.
, and Shieh
, C.-C.
, 2009
, “Design and Performance of a Solar-Powered Heating and Cooling System Using Silica Gel/Water Adsorption Chiller
,” Appl. Therm. Eng.
, 29
(10
), pp. 2100
–2105
.10.
Thu
, K.
, Ng
, K. C.
, Saha
, B. B.
, Chakraborty
, A.
, and Koyama
, S.
, 2009
, “Operational Strategy of Adsorption Desalination System
,” Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer
, 52
(7–8
), pp. 1811
–1816
.11.
Thu
, K.
, Saha
, B. B.
, Chakraborty
, A.
, Chun
, W. G.
, and Ng
, K. C.
, 2011
, “Study on an Advanced Adsorption Desalination Cycle With Evaporator–Condenser Heat Recovery Circuit
,” Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer
, 54
(1–3
), pp. 43
–51
.12.
Thu
, K.
, Chakraborty
, A.
, Kim
, Y.
, Myat
, A.
, Saha
, B. B.
, and Ng
, K. C.
, 2013
, “Numerical Simulation and Performance Investigation of an Advanced Adsorption Desalination Cycle
,” Desalination
, 308
, pp. 209
–218
.13.
Ng
, K. C.
, Thu
, K.
, Kim
, Y.
, Chakraborty
, A.
, and Amy
, G.
, 2013
, “Adsorption Desalination: An Emerging Low-Cost Thermal Desalination Method
,” Desalination
, 308
, pp. 161
–179
.14.
Ng
, K. C.
, Thu
, K.
, Chakraborty
, A.
, Saha
, B. B.
, and Chun.
, W. G.
, 2009
, “Solar-Assisted Dual-Effect Adsorption Cycle for the Production of Cooling Effect and Potable Water
,” Int. J. Low-Carbon Technol.
, 4
(2
), pp. 61
–67
.15.
Saha
, B. B.
, Akisawa
, A.
, and Kashiwagi
, T.
, 1997
, “Silica Gel Water Advanced Adsorption Refrigeration Cycle
,” Energy
, 22
(4
), pp. 437
–447
.16.
Saha
, B. B.
, Akisawa
, A.
, and Kashiwagi
, T.
, 2001
, “Solar/Waste Heat Driven Two-Stage Adsorption Chiller: The Prototype
,” Renewable Energy
, 23
(1
), pp. 93
–101
.17.
Saha
, B. B.
, Koyama
, S.
, Kashiwagi
, T.
, Akisawa
, A.
, Ng
, K. C.
, and Chua
, H. T.
, 2003
, “Waste Heat Driven Dual-Mode, Multi-Stage, Multi-Bed Regenerative Adsorption System
,” Int. J. Refrig.
, 26
(7
), pp. 749
–757
.18.
Mitra
, S.
, Kumar
, P.
, Srinivasan
, K.
, and Dutta
, P.
, 2014
, “Simulation Study of a Two-Stage Adsorber System
,” Appl. Therm. Eng.
, 72
(2
), pp. 283
–288
.19.
Wang
, X.
, Zimmermann
, W.
, Ng
, K. C.
, Chakraboty
, A.
, and Keller
, J. U.
, 2004
, “Investigation on the Isotherm of Silica Gel + Water Systems TG and Volumetric Methods
,” J. Therm. Anal. Calorim.
, 76
(2
), pp. 659
–669
.20.
El-Sharkawy
, I. I.
, 2011
, “On Linear Driving Force Approximation for Adsorption Cooling Applications
,” Int. J. Refrig.
, 34
(3
), pp. 667
–673
.21.
Raymond
, A.
, and Garimella
, S.
, 2011
, “Intraparticle Mass Transfer in Adsorption Heat Pumps: Limitations of the Linear Driving Force Approximation
,” ASME J. Heat Transfer
, 133
(4
), p. 042001
.Copyright © 2016 by ASME
You do not currently have access to this content.
