This paper reports the performance of a lithium bromide absorption chiller in a solar powered air conditioning system, when being operated conventionally. The chiller performance based on a modified solar powered absorption air conditioning system which is integrated with a partitioned storage tank has been presented and discussed. It is shown that, by partitioning the storage tank, the chiller performance is not significantly affected, and the solar powered cooling effect can be realized much earlier, achieving a higher total solar cooling COPsystem, compared to the conventional system designs.

Issue Section:
Technical Briefs
Keywords:
solar heating, solar absorber-convertors, absorption, air conditioning, cooling, thermal energy storage
Topics:
Absorption, Air conditioning, Cooling, Hot water, Solar energy, Storage tanks
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