REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS,DESIGN TECHNOLOGIES AND DEVELOPMENTS -- REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS,DESIGN TECHNOLOGIES AND DEVELOPMENTS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ADSORPTION REFRIGERATION -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. ADSORPTION REFRIGERATION CYCLE -- 3. ADSORPTION REFRIGERATION CYCLES -- 3.1. Simple Two-Bed Adsorption Refrigeration Cycle -- 3.2. Integrated Adsorption Refrigeration Cycle -- 3.3. Three Bed Adsorption Heat Cycle -- 3.3.1. Three Bed with Dual Evaporator Adsorption Refrigeration Cycle -- 3.4. Multi-Stages Adsorption Refrigeration Cycle -- 4. ADSORBENTS -- 4.1. Physical Adsorbents -- 4.1.1. Porous Carbons -- 4.1.2. Mesoporous Silicates -- 4.1.3. Zeolites -- 4.1.4. Metalaluminophosphates -- 4.1.5. Metal Organic Frame Work -- 4.2. Chemical Adsorbents -- 4.2.1. Metal Chlorides -- 4.2.2. Salt and Metal Hydrides -- 4.2.3. Metal Oxides -- 4.3. Chemical / Physical Adsorbent Composites -- 4.3.1. Hygroscopic Salts/Silica Gel Composites -- 4.3.2. Chlorides / Porous Media Composite Adsorbents -- 5. REFRIGERANTS -- 6. ADSORPTION PAIRS -- 7. ADSORBENT BED DESIGN AND IMPROVEMENT TECHNIQUES -- 7.1. Adsorbent Porosity -- 7.2. Pore Size -- 7.3. Granular Size -- 7.4. Adsorbent / Metal Ratio -- 7.5. Heat Transfer in the Adsorbent Bed -- 7.6. GRANULAR PACKED ADSORBENT BED -- 7.6.1. Covering the Adsorbent Particles by Polyaniline Net -- 7.6.2. Adding Metallic Particles to Adsorbent Granules -- 7.6.3. Coating the Heat Exchanger by the Adsorbent Material -- 7.6.4. Consolidated Adsorbent Bed -- 7.6.5. Adsorbent Deposition over Metallic Foam -- 7.7. Adsorber Bed Configurations -- 7.7.1. Plate Heat Exchanger Adsorber -- 7.7.2. Flat Tube Adsorber Bed -- 7.7.3. Finned Tube Adsorber Bed -- 7.7.4 Spiral Heat Exchanger Adsorber Beds -- 8. APPLICATIONS OF ADSORPTION COOLINGTECHNOLOGY -- 8.1. Transport Air Conditioning -- 8.2. Ice Makers -- 8.3. Energy Management in Buildings.

8.4. Electronic Cooling -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- HOW TO IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF HEAT PUMPS IN AIR-CONDITIONING PLANTS BY USING MEMBRANE CONTACTOR DEHUMIDIFICATION/REGENERATION SYSTEMS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTON -- 1. MEMBRANE CONTACTORS -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUS AND RESULTS -- 3. MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF MEMBRANE CONTACTOR -- Air side -- Solution Side -- Air Side -- Solution Side -- 4. HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER THROUGH THE MEMBRANES -- 4.1. Determination of a -- 4.2. Determination of G'v -- Vapour Mass Transfer in the Gas Phase -- Vapour Mass Transfer Through the Membrane -- Water Mass Transfer in the Liquid Phase -- 4.3. Determination of TwB and TwA -- 5. COMPARISON BETWEEN THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS -- 6. DESCRIPTION OF THE HYBRID AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEM -- 7. VAPOUR-COMPRESSION HEAT PUMP -- 8. CASE STUDY -- 9. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 9.1. Plant Parameters -- 9.2. Climatic Parameters -- 9.3. Contactor Parameters -- CONCLUSION -- LIST OF SYMBOLS -- REFERENCES -- CONDENSATION HEAT TRANSFER IN SMOOTH AND ENHANCED GEOMETRIES: A REVIEW OF THE RECENT LITERATURE -- ABSTRACT -- NOMENCLATURE -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. LITERATURE REVIEW OF 2010 AND 2011 REGARDING TUBE GEOMETRY -- 2.1. Smooth Tubes -- 2.2. Enhanced Tubes -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- HIGHLIGHTS -- PROTOTYPING AND EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF AN AIR FILTRATION SYSTEM -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. DESIGN PROCESS -- Design Objective -- Theoretical Background -- Initial Design -- 3. PROTOTYPING -- 4. EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION -- Running Experiment -- Analysis of Experimental Results -- 5. SUGGESTIONS -- 6. ADVANTAGES OF THE DESIGN -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- IRREVERSIBLE ESTIMATION POSSIBILITIES OF AN ABSORPTION REFRIGERATION CYCLE -- Abstract -- 1.Introduction.

2.ThermodynamicBalanceEquationsandtheRelationbetweenEf ciencyFactorsandEntropyProduction -- 3.IrreversibilityandtheRelationshipbetweenParametersoftheWorkingMediumatVariousStagesoftheProcess -- 4.CalculationandOptimizationofanAbsorptionRefrigerationMachine -- 5.CalculationExample -- 6.Conclusion -- 7.Notation -- 8.Subscriptsandsuperscripts -- References -- INDEX.