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Title: Energy analysis of a novel ejector-compressor cooling cycle driven by electricity and heat (waste heat or solar energy)
Authors: Riaz, F.
Tan, K.H.
Farooq, M.
Imran, M.
Lee, P.S. 
Keywords: CCP
Efficiency
Ejector
Energy
Low-grade heat
Refrigeration
Vapour compression
VCC
Issue Date: 2020
Publisher: MDPI AG
Citation: Riaz, F., Tan, K.H., Farooq, M., Imran, M., Lee, P.S. (2020). Energy analysis of a novel ejector-compressor cooling cycle driven by electricity and heat (waste heat or solar energy). Sustainability (Switzerland) 12 (19) : 8178. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12198178
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
Abstract: Low-grade heat is abundantly available as solar thermal energy and as industrial waste heat. Non concentrating solar collectors can provide heat with temperatures 75-100 °C. In this paper, a new system is proposed and analyzed which enhances the electrical coefficient of performance (COP) of vapour compression cycle (VCC) by incorporating low-temperature heat-driven ejectors. This novel system, ejector enhanced vapour compression refrigeration cycle (EEVCRC), significantly increases the electrical COP of the system while utilizing abundantly available low-temperature solar or waste heat (below 100 °C). This system uses two ejectors in an innovative way such that the higher-pressure ejector is used at the downstream of the electrically driven compressor to help reduce the delivery pressure for the electrical compressor. The lower pressure ejector is used to reduce the quality of wet vapour at the entrance of the evaporator. This system has been modelled in Engineering Equation Solver (EES) and its performance is theoretically compared with conventional VCC, enhanced ejector refrigeration system (EERS), and ejection-compression system (ECS). The proposed EEVCRC gives better electrical COP as compared to all the three systems. The parametric study has been conducted and it is found that the COP of the proposed system increases exponentially at lower condensation temperature and higher evaporator temperature. At 50 °C condenser temperature, the electrical COP of EEVCRC is 50% higher than conventional VCC while at 35 °C, the electrical COP of EEVCRC is 90% higher than conventional VCC. For the higher temperature heat source, and hence the higher generator temperatures, the electrical COP of EEVCRC increases linearly while there is no increase in the electrical COP for ECS. The better global COP indicates that a small solar collector will be needed if this system is driven by solar thermal energy. It is found that by using the second ejector at the upstream of the electrical compressor, the electrical COP is increased by 49.2% as compared to a single ejector system. © 2020 by the authors.
Source Title: Sustainability (Switzerland)
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/197450
ISSN: 20711050
DOI: 10.3390/su12198178
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
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