Abstract
There has been a great progress in Adsorption Refrigeration Cycle research. Many researchers have introduced their methods to discover and improve cycle performance. This paper will present a new adsorption cycle known as Reheat Two-Stage, which has been evaluated numerically. The study aims to examine the possibility of improving adsorption cycle performance which uses low temperature heat source and environmentally friendly refrigerant. This paper will describe the cycle working principle and discuss the results obtained from simulations. The cycle performance is analyzed using cooling capacity and coefficient of performance (COP). The results show that cycle performance is extremely sensitive to driving heat source temperature. The results also show that cycle time and mass recovery time are influential factors on performance. This paper will also compare the performance of this cycle with Single-Stage and Two-Stage cycles.
