The Performance of a Novel Solar Cooling and Power System with Different Working Fluids

Abstract:

Due to serious environmental problems and energy supply and demand issues, solar energy as a clean and abundant energy gets more and more attention. This paper presented a novel cooling and power system combined with PTCs. The system performance analysis was conducted with four different organic working fluids. The impacts of organic Rankine cycle (ORC) evaporation temperature, ORC condensing temperature and heat transfer fluid (HTF) mass flow rate in evaporator on system thermal performance were analyzed. The results show that system with toluene as working fluid has the highest thermal and exergy efficiency, and D4 and MDM have the lowest. Different working fluids have different cooling power to electricity ratios. The HTF mass flow rate in evaporator has a significant effect on system thermal performance.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 672-674)
• Pages: 86-93
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.672-674.86
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Huan Lei*, Jin Fu Yang, Dong Jiang Han
• Keywords: Absorption Refrigeration Cycle (ARC), ORC, Organic Working Fluid, PTCs

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