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Systematic screening and evaluation for an optimal adsorbent in a facade-integrated adsorption-based solar cooling system for high-rise buildings

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  • Li, Qiwei
  • Boeckmann, Olaf
  • Schaefer, Micha

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Solar-powered adsorption chillers are a climate-friendly solution for building cooling, but costs and space requirements limit their widespread adoption. Recently developed adsorption cooling facade systems (ACFS) save installation space and further reduce CO2 emissions. The performance of ACFS depends on the implemented adsorbent. To achieve low costs and high performance of ACFS, this study systematically screened and scored adsorbents using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method, focusing on price, stability, driving temperature and adsorption capacity. This method narrowed down 293 adsorbents to top 10 scored adsorbents including 4 silica gels, 4 active carbons and 2 molecular sieves. The adsorbent-specific performance is evaluated by numerical simulation, revealing silica gel Type A++, Type 2560, Siogel and molecular sieve AQSOA-FAM-Z02 have peak adsorber temperatures 1.5–9.3 °C lower and increase solar cooling efficiency (SCE) by 25–27 % compared to reference adsorbent Zeolite 13X. A sensitivity analysis of the Dubinin-Astakhov equation shows increasing E and decreasing V leads to an only minor adsorber temperature decrease and minor system efficiency increase. Lower temperatures and higher capacity cannot guarantee better system performance. This underscores that improving system performance cannot be achieved solely through adsorbent optimization but requires system optimization in parallel.

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  • Li, Qiwei & Boeckmann, Olaf & Schaefer, Micha, 2024. "Systematic screening and evaluation for an optimal adsorbent in a facade-integrated adsorption-based solar cooling system for high-rise buildings," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 310(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:310:y:2024:i:c:s0360544224028676
    DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2024.133092
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