An evaluation of the technologies for heat recovery to meet onsite cooling demands

Carbon and Water Footprint of Energy Saving Options for the Air Conditioning of Electric Cabins at Industrial Sites

“…Practical industrial waste heat (IWH)-based cooling applications have received relatively less attention than solar cooling in the literature: the technology was proposed in some review papers [22,23], and mathematical models for the optimization of district cooling applications based on industrial waste heat recovery have recently been proposed for illustrative case studies from the chemical industry [24,25]. Some techno-economic feasibility assessments of absorption cooling as a recovery option for industrial low-grade waste heat have been performed by Brückner et al [26] for general European IWH potentials, and by Cola et al [27] for a drying process in the textile industry. In both cases, the assessment was performed either on a purely economic [26] basis or on an economic and thermodynamic basis [27].…”

“…Some techno-economic feasibility assessments of absorption cooling as a recovery option for industrial low-grade waste heat have been performed by Brückner et al [26] for general European IWH potentials, and by Cola et al [27] for a drying process in the textile industry. In both cases, the assessment was performed either on a purely economic [26] basis or on an economic and thermodynamic basis [27]. However, the environmental implications of different choices, particularly with a water-energy-nexus-aware view, have hardly been considered.…”

Design enhancement of an adiabatic LiBr-H2O absorber through a droplet flow optimization

“…In this Chapter, the main technologies for heat-to-cool conversion are reviewed, and their main features described. A study for a correct selection of the best candidate for a smallscale refrigeration device is then presented [19]. The constraints and boundary conditions for the selection are set, and the results are then presented into two forms.…”