Improving ice productivity and performance for an activated carbon/methanol solar adsorption ice-maker

Naef A.A. Qasem; Maged A.I. El-Shaarawi

doi:10.1016/j.solener.2013.10.018

Improving ice productivity and performance for an activated carbon/methanol solar adsorption ice-maker

Naef A.A. Qasem
, Maged A.I. El-Shaarawi^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The paper addresses the factors that can improve the performance of an activated carbon/methanol intermittent solar adsorption ice marker. It optimizes the ice maker under Dhahran climate with the MATLAB program to improve the performance and to increase the ice production per day per square meter of the solar collector. The optimizing results show that 14.1kg of activated carbon NORIT RX3-Extra per m² of solar collector, double glazing cover, thin stainless steel absorber tubes with selective coating, suitable monthly collector tilt angle and suitable time for starting the cycle improve the performance. Moreover, the system can produce from 5kg up to 13kg of ice per day per m² of collector area with improved solar coefficients of performance (SCOP) of 0.12 and 0.24 in the hot and the cold days, respectively. The optimized solar refrigerator is of benefit to further application and producing ice in grid-off rural zones.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	523-542
Number of pages	20
Journal	Solar Energy
Volume	98
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2013.10.018
State	Published - Oct 2013

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Keywords

Activated carbon/methanol
Adsorption
Intermittent
Modeling
Refrigeration
Solar energy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
General Materials Science

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Improving ice productivity and performance for an activated carbon/methanol solar adsorption ice-maker

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