Investigations of optimum heat exchanger shape for adsorption heat pump applications

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Adsorption heat pump system is a growing and promising technology for providing thermal comfort compared with other conventional heat pump systems in the view point of energy and environmental conservation. One of the major drawbacks is, however, low heat and mass transfer characteristics inside the adsorber bed which leads this system towards low coefficient of performance as well as low specific cooling power and hinder this system from mass scale production. Part of the recent researches suggested that different heat exchanger shape would increase the heat exchange performance of the adsorber bed. In this study, a critical review has been performed to find out the suitable heat exchanger shape for adsorber bed in terms of specific cooling power.