Review of coupled heat and mass transfer studies in falling film absorbers: Modeling, experimental and thermodynamic approaches

A Mahamoudou, N Le Pierrès, J Ramousse - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Absorption machines are frequently used for cooling and heating. However, they must be
improved to achieve high performance at a lower cost. Being a key component of these …

Heat pump water heater enhanced with phase change materials thermal energy storage: Modeling study

J Sun, K Nawaz, J Rendall, A Elatar, J Brechtl - … Communications in Heat …, 2023 - Elsevier
A promising solution to improve the first hour rating (FHR) of a heat pump water heater
(HPWH) involves employing a secondary tank which contains phase change material (PCM) …

Alcohol-based adsorption heat pumps using hydrophobic metal–organic frameworks

RM Madero-Castro, A Luna-Triguero… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The building climatization and its influence on energy consumption have consequences on
the environment due to the emission of greenhouse gases. Improving the efficiency of this …

Experimental investigations and multi-objective optimization of an air-source absorption heat pump for residential district heating

Z Wu, S You, H Zhang, Y Wang, Y Jiang, Z Liu… - Energy Conversion and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The traditional single-effect absorption heat pump is an effective district heating measure,
while the low ambient temperature will degrade its performance significantly. To overcome …

Performance analysis and optimization for a novel air-source gas-fired absorption heat pump

Z Wu, S You, H Zhang, Y Wang, S Wei, Y Jiang… - Energy Conversion and …, 2020 - Elsevier
In district heating technologies, gas fired boilers and conventional heat pumps have poor
performance at low ambient temperature. To tackle this issue, this study has proposed a …

Thermodynamic and economic analysis of a gas-fired absorption heat pump for district heating with cascade recovery of flue gas waste heat

D Lu, G Chen, M Gong, Y Bai, Q Xu, Y Zhao… - Energy Conversion and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Among district heating technologies, gas-fired boiler has difficulty in recovering flue gas
waste heat and conventional heat pump has poor performance at low ambient temperature …

An energy and cost comparison of residential water heating technologies

CM Keinath, S Garimella - Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Water heating is a significant user of energy. Several studies have investigated the
development of more efficient systems. The present study compares several commercially …

Experimental investigations of an absorption heat pump prototype with intermediate process for residential district heating

D Lu, Y Bai, Y Zhao, X Dong, M Gong, E Luo… - Energy Conversion and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite being efficient means of district heating, conventional single-effect absorption heat
pumps suffer significant performance deterioration at low ambient temperatures. To solve …

Development of a micro-scale heat exchanger based, residential capacity ammonia–water absorption chiller

MA Staedter, S Garimella - International Journal of Refrigeration, 2018 - Elsevier
A standalone absorption chiller based on microchannel heat exchanger technology was
developed with a cooling capacity of 7 kW. A review of recent advances in microscale heat …

Applicability analysis of the solar heating system with parabolic trough solar collectors in different regions of China

M Fan, H Liang, S You, H Zhang, B Yin, X Wu - Applied energy, 2018 - Elsevier
This study aimed to investigate the applicability of the solar heating system in different
geographical regions with different meteorological conditions, of which parabolic trough …