Experimental Study on Solar Cooling Tube Using ThermalVacuum Emptying Method.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Materials Science and Engineering Volume 2012, Article ID 808210, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2012/808210 Research Article Experimental Study on Solar Cooling Tube Using Thermal/Vacuum Emptying Method Huizhong Zhao,1, 2 Haibin Liang,2 Wenzhe Sun,1 Guoqing Yu,2 Dan Cao,1 and Jun Ji1 1 Merchant Marine College, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China 2 School of Environment and Architecture, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China Correspondence should be addressed to Huizhong Zhao, hzzhao@ Received 1 April 2012; Revised 15 June 2012; Accepted 3 July 2012 Academic Editor: Yu-Pei Huang Copyright © 2012 Huizhong Zhao et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A solar cooling tube using thermal/vacuum emptying method was experimentally studied in this paper. The coefficient of performance (COP) of the solar cooling tube was mostly affected by the vacuum degree of the system. In past research, the thermal vacuum method, using an electric oven and iodine-tungsten lamp to heat up the adsorbent bed and H2 O vapor to expel the air from the solar cooling tube, was used to manufacture solar cooling tubes. This paper presents a novel thermal vacuum combined with vacuum pump method allowing an increased vacuum state for producing solar cooling tubes. The following conclusions are reached: the adsorbent bed temperature of solar cooling tube could reaches up to 233◦C, and this temperature is sufficient to meet desorption demand; the refrigerator power of a single solar cooling tube varies from 1 W to 12 W; t