A review of solar thermal refrigeration and cooling methods

KR Ullah, R Saidur, HW Ping, RK Akikur… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2013 - Elsevier
Energy is the lifeblood of the modern world. Because of the negative environmental impacts
and limited sources of fossil fuels, researchers are increasingly focusing on renewable …

A review on adsorption working pairs for refrigeration

LW Wang, RZ Wang, RG Oliveira - Renewable and sustainable energy …, 2009 - Elsevier
Solid sorption refrigeration is a type of environmental benign and energy saving technology
and the sorbents utilized can be divided into physical, chemical and composite sorbents …

Review on sorption materials and technologies for heat pumps and thermal energy storage

LF Cabeza, A Solé, C Barreneche - Renewable Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Sorption is used for absorption/adsorption heat pumps (sorption refrigeration) and sorption
for thermal energy storage (TES). This paper is the first review where the research on both …

A review on adsorption refrigeration technology and adsorption deterioration in physical adsorption systems

DC Wang, YH Li, D Li, YZ Xia, JP Zhang - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2010 - Elsevier
As one kind of environmentally friendly refrigeration, the adsorption refrigeration has
attracted many attentions in resent decades. This paper introduces the researches of …

A review of chemical heat pump technology and applications

W Wongsuwan, S Kumar, P Neveu… - Applied thermal …, 2001 - Elsevier
Chemical heat pumps (CHPs) provide high storage capacity and high heat of reaction as
compared to sensible heat generated by absorption. Investigation of material properties and …

Progress in the development of solid–gas sorption refrigeration thermodynamic cycle driven by low-grade thermal energy

TX Li, RZ Wang, H Li - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2014 - Elsevier
Heat-powered solid–gas sorption refrigeration technology has been regarded as one of the
effective methods for reutilization of low-grade thermal energy such as industrial waste heat …

The performance of two adsorption ice making test units using activated carbon and a carbon composite as adsorbents

LW Wang, RZ Wang, ZS Lu, CJ Chen, K Wang, JY Wu - Carbon, 2006 - Elsevier
The available adsorption working pairs applied to adsorption refrigeration system, which
utilize activated carbon as adsorbent, are mainly activated carbon–methanol, activated …

Study on a new solid absorption refrigeration pair: active carbon fiber—methanol

RZ Wang, JP Jia, YH Zhu, Y Teng, JY Wu, J Cheng… - 1997 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Our experiments show that active carbon fiber (ACF) might be a good substitute for activated
carbon (AC) as the refrigeration capacity Qf and adsorption time of ACF are three times more …

Permeability and thermal conductivity of compact chemical and physical adsorbents with expanded natural graphite as host matrix

B Tian, ZQ Jin, LW Wang, RZ Wang - International journal of heat and mass …, 2012 - Elsevier
Permeability and thermal conductivity test units were designed to study the heat and mass
transfer performance of compact chemical and physical adsorbents, ie compact CaCl2 and …

Locomotive driver cabin adsorption air-conditioner

S Jiangzhou, RZ Wang, YZ Lu, YX Xu, JY Wu, ZH Li - Renewable Energy, 2003 - Elsevier
Drivers can easily feel fatigue and aprosexia due to the high temperature inside the
locomotive driver cabin in summer. The current locomotive driver cabin air-conditioning …