Modeling the Exact Adsorption Equilibrium of Mesoporous Materials via Interpolation using Cubic Splines– A Numerical Performance Comparison of Conventional and Advanced Adsorbents in Solar-Powered Integrated Refrigeration Systems

Adsorption Isotherm (uptake v.s. relative pressure) of MIL-101(Cr) 7.Desorption Isotherm (uptake v.s. relative pressure) of MIL-101(Cr) 8. Functional dependence of diffusion coefficient of water molecules in LiBr/water solution upon concentration and temperature 9. Functional dependence of specific heat capacity of Aluminum heat exchanger on temperature 10.

Functional dependence of specific heat capacity of Copper heat exchanger on temperature 11. Functional dependence of specific heat capacity of water on temperature 12. Functional dependence of specific heat capacity of saturated water vapor on temperature 13.

Functional dependence of specific heat capacity of latent heat of vaporization of water on temperature Finally, the entire zipped code for simulation of stand-alone silica-gel/water adsorption chiller has also been shared here with the name: stand_alonesilica_gel_ads_chiller.zip. It runs by first unzipping this file in a folder, opening this folder in MATLAB command window, and typing "adsorption_chiller_test" at the command prompt.

After this code runs successfully, it will save a number of .dat files in the folder out of which only two are important namely "Perfor.dat" and "DATA.dat". Perfor.dat consists of the same number of rows as the total number of cycles, its first column represents the COP values for each cycle, while the second and the third one represents the solar COP and SCP values for each cycle, respectively. The "DATA.dat" file has 21 columns and more than 9000,000 rows each of which represents a time-step in simulation.

The columns can be represented as follows: 1. adsorption bed temp, 2. desorption bed temp, 3. evaporator temperature, 4. adsorption bed pressure, 5. desorption bed pressure, 6. adsorption bed uptake, 7. desorption bed uptake, 8. hot water storage tank temp, 9. Mass of liquid water in evaporator, 10. refrigeration power, 11. heating power, 12. driving temp, 13. incremental COP values, 14. relative pressure in adsorption bed, 15. relative pressure in desorption bed, 16. chilled water inlet temp, 17. cooling water inlet temp, 18. heating water inlet temp, 19. heating water outlet temp, 20. chilled water outlet temp, 21. cooling water outlet temp