A Comparative Study on Solar Refrigeration Technology

Abstract:

This paper performed a comparative study on solar photovoltaic refrigeration technology and solar adsorption refrigeration technology. The experimental results showed that in sunny day, COP of the solar fin pipe adsorption refrigerator was 0.13, and was higher than 0.12, COP of the photovoltaic refrigerator. With the solar radiation enhancement within a certain range, the COP of solar adsorption refrigerator increased faster than COP of solar photovoltaic refrigerator. From the aspects of economy, with the same refrigerating capacity, the cost of the adsorption refrigerators was 30% higher than that of the photovoltaic refrigerators.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 541-542)
• Pages: 887-891
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.541-542.887
• Online since: March 2014
• Authors: Hua Zhang, Xu Ji*, Ming Li, Qiang Wang, Xiang Bo Song
• Keywords: Adsorption Refrigeration, COP, Photovoltaic Refrigeration, Solar Energy

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