PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF GLAZED AND UNGLAZED COLLECTORS/REGENERATORS IN A LIQUID ABSORBENT OPEN-CYCLE ABSORPTION COOLING SYSTEM
Titel:
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF GLAZED AND UNGLAZED COLLECTORS/REGENERATORS IN A LIQUID ABSORBENT OPEN-CYCLE ABSORPTION COOLING SYSTEM
Auteur:
Hawlader, M. N. A. Stack, Andrew P. Wood, Byard D.
Verschenen in:
International journal of sustainable energy
Paginering:
Jaargang 11 (1992) nr. 3-4 pagina's 135-164
Jaar:
1992
Inhoud:
The performance of two collectors/regenerators, one glazed and the other unglazed, was studied when tested side-by-side under the meteorological conditions of Tempe, Arizona. One half of an 11 m by 11 m roof structure was covered with a series of seven Tedlar panels, each measuring 1.76 cm by 4.88 m, and the other remained unglazed. When the performance of the collector/regenerator (C/R) was expressed in terms of the quantity of water evaporated from it, which in effect was a measure of the cooling capacity of the system, the unglazed C/R performed better than the glazed C/R under the climatic conditions considered here. Nondimensional correlations for heat and mass transfer were developed from the experimental data for subsequent use with a performance model. The glazed C/R was found less sensitive to changes in independent variables and its regeneration efficiency was, on the average, 7.6% lower than the unglazed C/R. The performance of the glazed C/R approaches that of unglazed C/R at a larger height of the glazing.