Solar Cooling Technologies

Preface







Introduction



1.1 Global energy production and resources

1.2 Solar energy

1.3 Refrigeration applications

1.4 Refrigerants

1.5 Solar cooling status

1.6 References





Thermodynamic Cycles for Solar Cooling



2.1 Carnot cycle for refrigeration

2.2 Mechanical refrigeration main components

2.3 Vapor compression cycle

2.4 Absorption cooling cycle

2.5 Adsorption cooling cycle

2.6 Desiccant cooling cycle

2.7 Organic Rankine Cycle

2.8 Supercritical CO2 cycle

2.9 References





Solar thermal collectors



3.1 Non-concentrating solar collectors

3.2 Concentrating solar collectors

3.3 Collector applications

3.4 References





Photovoltaic driven heat pumps



4.1 Photovoltaic systems

4.2 Solar electric chillers

4.3 Photovoltaic-Thermal systems

4.4 References





Absorption cooling heat pumps



5.1 Absorption applications and performance data

5.2 Solar cooling with absorption chillers

5.3 Process model

5.4 References





Adsorption cooling heat pumps



6.1 Adsorbents

6.2 Adsorption refrigerants

6.3 Adsorption working pairs

6.4 Adsorption chiller applications

6.5 Solar cooling with adsorption chillers

6.6 Overview of reported in literature adsorption systems

6.7 Process model

6.8 Model solution and results

6.9 Adsorption cooling applications

6.10 References





Alternative and hybrid cooling systems



7.1 Alternative cooling systems

7.2 Hybrid cooling systems

7.3 Hybrid solar cooling systems

7.4 References





Trigeneration systems



8.1 Introduction

8.2 Literature review

8.3 Case study: the BioTRIC trigeneration system

8.4 Conclusions

8.5 References





Solar desiccant cooling



9.1 Evaporative cooling

9.2 Dehumidifiers/regenerators

9.3 Solid desiccant cooling

9.4 Liquid desiccant cooling

9.5 Coupling with solar setups

9.6 Solar driven desiccant cooling applications

9.7 References





Thermal energy storage



10.1 Sensible thermal energy storage (STES)

10.2 Latent energy storage (LTES)

10.3 Thermochemical energy storage (TCS)

10.4 References





Economic evaluation of solar cooling technologies





11.1 Introduction

11.2 Overview of solar cooling technologies

11.3 Literature review of solar cooling economic evaluation studies

11.4 Compilation of cost data of solar cooling technologies

11.5 Economic evaluation case studies

11.6 Conclusions

11.7 References

Index