Abstract
Silica gel-water Adsorption refrigeration cycle has the advantage that the cycle is driven by waste heat at near ambient temperature, however, the performance of cycle is low. For improvement of the performance, adsorption refrigeration cycle with mass recovery process was studied by Pons (1999). In the study, 4bed adsorption refrigeration cycle with mass recovery is presented. The cycle is applied to silica gel-water pair and uses hot and cooling water with cascading. COP value and cooling capacity of the cycle were calculated with computational analysis and compared with conventional cycles. The mass recovery cycle has the advantage for conventional cycles if the chilled water outlet temperature of each cycle is same value.
