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Exergy analysis of solar assisted double effect absorption refrigeration system

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  • Ravikumar, T.S.
  • Suganthi, L.
  • Samuel, Anand A.

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Exergy or the available energy is based on the second law of thermodynamics and goes back to Maxwell and Gibbs. It is the exergy content and not the energy content, that truly represents the potential of the substance to cause change. Exergy is the only rational basis for evaluating the system performance. The aim of this project is to study in detail the exergy variation in the solar assisted absorption system. The influence of the cycle parameters are analysed on the basis of first law and second law effectiveness and the results indicated various ways of improving system performance by better design. Also a better quality of the evaporator has more effect on the system performance than the better quality of other components. It was shown that second law analysis quantitatively visualizes losses within a system and gives clear trends for optimization.

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  • Ravikumar, T.S. & Suganthi, L. & Samuel, Anand A., 1998. "Exergy analysis of solar assisted double effect absorption refrigeration system," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 14(1), pages 55-59.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:14:y:1998:i:1:p:55-59
    DOI: 10.1016/S0960-1481(98)00047-0
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    1. Yılmaz, İbrahim Halil & Saka, Kenan & Kaynakli, Omer, 2016. "A thermodynamic evaluation on high pressure condenser of double effect absorption refrigeration system," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 113(C), pages 1031-1041.
    2. Sözen, Adnan & Yücesu, H. Serdar, 2007. "Performance improvement of absorption heat transformer," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 32(2), pages 267-284.
    3. Onan, C. & Ozkan, D.B. & Erdem, S., 2010. "Exergy analysis of a solar assisted absorption cooling system on an hourly basis in villa applications," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 35(12), pages 5277-5285.
    4. Gebreslassie, Berhane H. & Medrano, Marc & Boer, Dieter, 2010. "Exergy analysis of multi-effect water–LiBr absorption systems: From half to triple effect," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 35(8), pages 1773-1782.
    5. Sözen, Adnan, 2004. "Effect of irreversibilities on performance of an absorption heat transformer used to increase solar pond’s temperature," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 29(4), pages 501-515.
    6. S. Anand & A. Gupta & S. Tyagi, 2014. "Renewable energy powered evacuated tube collector refrigerator system," Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Springer, vol. 19(7), pages 1077-1089, October.

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