TY - JOUR
T1 - The Technical, Economic, and Environmental Feasibility of a Bioheat-Driven Adsorption Cooling System for Food Cold Storing
T2 - A Case Study of Rwanda
AU - Alammar, Ahmed
AU - Rezk, Ahmed
AU - Alaswad, Abed
AU - Fernando, Julia
AU - Decker, Stephanie D
AU - Olabi, Abdul Ghani
AU - Ruhumuliza, Joseph
AU - Gasana, Quenan
N1 - © 2022, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
PY - 2022/11/1
Y1 - 2022/11/1
N2 - This paper studies the technical, economic, and environmental feasibility of a standalone adsorption cooling system thermally driven by biomass combustion and solar thermal energy. The developed cooling package was benchmarked against a baseline vapour compression refrigeration system, driven by grid electricity and the widely investigated adsorption cooling system driven by solar heat. TRNSYS was utilised to imitate the integrated systems, investigate their performance throughout the year, and optimise their designs by employing the meteorological data for Rwanda and an existing cold room (13 m2 floor area × 2.9 m height) as a case study. The optimisation study for the system revealed that maximum chiller performance (COP = 0.62), minimum biomass daily consumption (36 kg), and desired cold room setting temperature (10 °C) throughout the year can be achieved if the boiler setting temperature, heat storage size, and heating water flow rate are 95.13 °C, 0.01 m3 and 601.25 Kg/h. An optimal PV area/battery size combination of 12 modules / 16 kWh was observed from the economic, environmental, and technical viewpoints.
AB - This paper studies the technical, economic, and environmental feasibility of a standalone adsorption cooling system thermally driven by biomass combustion and solar thermal energy. The developed cooling package was benchmarked against a baseline vapour compression refrigeration system, driven by grid electricity and the widely investigated adsorption cooling system driven by solar heat. TRNSYS was utilised to imitate the integrated systems, investigate their performance throughout the year, and optimise their designs by employing the meteorological data for Rwanda and an existing cold room (13 m2 floor area × 2.9 m height) as a case study. The optimisation study for the system revealed that maximum chiller performance (COP = 0.62), minimum biomass daily consumption (36 kg), and desired cold room setting temperature (10 °C) throughout the year can be achieved if the boiler setting temperature, heat storage size, and heating water flow rate are 95.13 °C, 0.01 m3 and 601.25 Kg/h. An optimal PV area/battery size combination of 12 modules / 16 kWh was observed from the economic, environmental, and technical viewpoints.
KW - TRNSYS
KW - Adsorption Cooling
KW - Bioenergy
KW - Food Cold Chain
KW - Solar Energy
KW - Renewable Energy
UR - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3937950
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544222014633
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85135387664&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2139/ssrn.3937950
DO - 10.2139/ssrn.3937950
M3 - Article
SN - 0360-5442
VL - 258
JO - Energy
JF - Energy
M1 - 124560
ER -