Design and Simulation of an Absorption Diffusion Solar Refrigeration Unit
Abstract
The purpose of this study was the design and the simulation of an absorption diffusion refrigerator using solar as source of energy, for domestic use. The design holds account about the climatic conditions and the unit cost due to technical constraints imposed by the technology of the various components of the installation such as the solar generator, the condenser, the absorber and the evaporator. Mass and energy conservation equations were developed for each component of the cycle and solved numerically. The obtained results showed, that the new designed mono pressure absorption cycle of ammonia was suitable well for the cold production by means of the solar energy and that with a simple plate collector we can reach a power, of the order of 900 watts sufficient for domestic use.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2007.85.88
Copyright: © 2007 B. Chaouachi and S. Gabsi. 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
- Solar energy
- simulation
- absorption refrigeration
- mono pressure
- design