Experimental investigation on adsorption capacity of ACF–methanol pairs for cooling application

Abstract

Solar cooling technology is also known as popular among other conventional cooling technology due to increment in global warming effects. In solar cooling technology, Solar powered adsorption refrigeration system has potential to compete with other non-conventional cooling technology i.e. Absorption, PV based, Waste heat driven and Biogas cooling technology. The main objective of this research work is to investigate the adsorption capacity of methanol onto activated carbon fiber in the temperature range of 15°C-80 °C during isobaric adsorption process. To correlate adsorption characteristics data of the experiment, the DubininAstakhov equation is used. From series of experiments, it has found that, the maximum adsorption capacity found to be 0.44 kg/kg of acf carbon by maintaining packing density of bed is 110 kg/m 3 . The effect of heat generator temperature on adsorption capacity is also studied in this present investigation.