%0 Journal Article
%T Thermodynamic analysis of a thermally operated cascade sorption heat pump for continuous cold generation
%A P. Muthukumar
%A D.V.N. Lakshmi
%J International Journal of Energy and Environment
%D 2013
%I International Energy and Environment Foundation (IEEF)
%X In this paper, the thermodynamic analysis of a cascade sorption system consists of a two-stage metal hydride heat pump as topping cycle and a single-stage lithium bromide water system as bottom cycle is presented. The effects of various operating temperatures such as driving heat, heat release and refrigeration temperatures, and design parameters such as ratio of metal hydride mass to reactor mass and sensible heat exchange factor on the combined coefficient of performance (COP) of the cascade cycle, and specific cooling power (SCP) and total cold output of the metal hydride heat pump cycle are presented. It is observed that the combined COP is found to increase with heat release and refrigeration temperatures and however, decreases with driving heat temperature. Increase of sensible heat exchange factor improves the system performances significantly. Reduction in mass ratio from 0.5 to 0.1 improves the combined COP of the cascade system by about 10 %. The maximum predicted combined COP of the system is about 1.66 at the driving heat, heat release and refrigeration temperatures of 270 ˇăC, 125 ˇăC and 12ˇăC, respectively.
%K Cascade system
%K Metal hydride heat pump
%K Lithium bromide-water
%K Thermodynamic analysis
%U http://www.ijee.ieefoundation.org/vol4/issue1/IJEE_15_v4n1.pdf