Thermodynamic Investigation of Two-Stage Absorption Refrigeration System Connected by a Compressor
- 1 Unité de Recherche Energétique et Environnement, Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis B.P 37 Le Belvédère 1002, Tunisia
Abstract
The present work is to analyze a two-stage cycle based on the ammonia-water absorption system, with intermediate compression. The two generators of the system are heated by geothermal energy at low temperature. The study shows that this system makes it possible at lower generator temperature, under the limits permitted by the systems suggested up to now. For Tg = 335 K, Tc = Ta = 308 K and Te = 263 K, based on the electric consumption, the system efficiency is 8.2. The comparative study of the hybrid system and vapor compression systems shows the superiority of the proposed system. Supplied by the geothermal sources of the Tunisian south, the system makes it possible to obtain for a pilot geothermal station, a production of 75 tons of ice per day. The greenhouse gas emissions should thus be reduced by about 2.38 tons of CO2 per day. Therefore, based on the typical geothermal energy sources in Tunisia which present a global refrigeration potential of 4.4 MW, the daily quantity of ice that could be produced is about 865 tons. The greenhouse gas emissions should thus be reduced by about 10,000 tons of CO2 per year.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2005.1036.1041
Copyright: © 2005 L. Kairouani, E. Nehdi and R. B. Iffa. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Absorption
- ammonia
- geothermal
- hybrid
- refrigeration