Despite their limited commercial applications, chemical heat pumps (CHP)
have been considered as an important alternative to conventional heating
and cooling technologies. In this study, the adsorption-desorption of
ethanol over activated carbon was applied on the CHP reactor. The
ethanol vapor - activated carbon adsorption rate was determined at 30,
60, 90 and 120° / experimentally by using Intelligent Gravimetric Analyzer
C(IGA). The experimental adsorption data were used on the transient
modeling of reactor by assuming single component gas phase. Then,
spatial and temporal temperature, rate of heat transfer, and total amount
of heat transferred for a given period were determined. Finally, the
calculated adsorption and temperature profiles were integrated over
volume to predict performance of heat pump for different reactor
geometries. The results showed that, with proper modeling satisfactory
performance values can be attained using these systems.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612917/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 January 2011 |
| Creators | Yurtsever, Ahmet Onur |
| Contributors | Uludag, Yusuf |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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