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A case study of a low power vapour adsorption refrigeration system

Publisher : International Conference on Advances in Manufacturing Applications-2016(IconAMMA’16)

Campus : Bengaluru

School : School of Engineering

Department : Mechanical

Year : 2016

Abstract : Industrial refrigeration is one of the most energy consuming sector. In conventional Vapor Compression refrigeration system, compressor is the major power consuming element. Vapor Adsorption refrigeration system is one of the best replacement for the Vapor Compression refrigeration system. Our main objective is to analyze, design and develop a Vapor Adsorption refrigeration system which is cost effective and environmental friendly. A prototype model that is capable of producing a temperature drop in closed evaporator chamber was designed, fabricated and tested. Activated carbon/Methanol pair is chosen as Adsorbent/Refrigerant pair. The system is analyzed in ANSYS 14.5 using the inlet conditions obtained from the experimental setup. The performances and effectiveness of the unit was studied by determining Refrigeration Effect (RE), Coefficient of Performance (COP) and explaining operational issues of the unit. The results obtained from the analysis and experiments have marginal difference in COP i.e. with an error percentage of 5.94%. The overall COP obtained is 0.34 through experiments and from analysis the COP obtained is approximately 0.32.

Cite this Research Publication : Banala Dinesh (Student), Sai Manikanta M, Dishal Kumar T, DebjyotiSahu, presented a paper titled,"A case study of a low power vapour adsorption refrigeration system", at an International Conference on Advances in Manufacturing Applications-2016(IconAMMA’16) held during 14th to 16th July 2016 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru, and the paper is published in Material Science and Engineering Conference proceedings during the month of Sept 2016.

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