Saha, Bidyut Baran and Chakraborty, Anutosh and Koyama, Shigeru and Srinivasan, Kandadai and Choon Ng, Kim and Dutta, Pradip (2007) Thermodynamic formalism of minimum heat source temperature for driving advanced adsorption cooling device. In: Applied Physic Letters, 91 (11). 111902-1-111902-3.
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This letter presents a thermodynamic formulation to calculate the minimum driving heat source temperature of an advanced solid sorption cooling device, and it is validated with experimental data. This formalism has been developed from the rigor of the Boltzmann distribution function and the condensation approximation of adsorptive molecules. An interesting and useful finding has been established from this formalism that it is possible to construct a solid sorption refrigeration device that operates in a cycle transferring heat from a low temperature source to a heat sink with a driving heat source at a temperature close to but above ambient.
|Item Type:||Journal Article|
|Additional Information:||Copyright of this article belongs to American Institute of Physics.|
|Department/Centre:||Division of Mechanical Sciences > Mechanical Engineering|
|Date Deposited:||05 Aug 2008|
|Last Modified:||19 Sep 2010 04:48|
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