ANALYTICAL STUDY OF A SOLAR ABSORPTION REFRIGERATION SYSTEM

Vapor Absorption refrigeration systems are those systems which produce cooling effect by using solar heat energy, and have no moving parts. The stages of design are presented including the design of the evaporator, absorber, Solution heat exchanger, generator and condenser and solar collector. Double-pass Horizontal-tube heat exchangers have been used for the condenser and for the evaporator. For generator, absorber, solution heat exchanger vertical tube heat exchanger is used. The solution heat exchanger is designed as a single -pass vertical tube heat exchanger. The generator is designed using vertical tube heat double-pass heat exchanger. The absorber is designed using as Double-pass vertical tube heat exchanger. The condenser handles pure water vapor and adequate equations exist for the determination of the U-value. This work is done on the basis of ASHRAE charts, steam table and many research papers which are related to this work. Copper tubes with 8X2 matrix are used.