Test Procedures for Sorption Chillers Based on the Working Mode
Abstract
Up to now, thermally driven chillers have been classified on the base of number of effects (single or double effect), driving technology (direct or indirect fired) and sorbent physical properties (liquid: absorption; solid: adsorption); the few dedicated existing standards for their testing and evaluation have been developed on this classification. Nevertheless, the introduction on the market of new machines technologies and the necessity to test and evaluate them for a reliable marking as well as for having a deep understanding of their working, have shown in many cases the inapplicability of standards’ prescriptions and the inadequacy of the parameters used for their classification. For this reason, a new way to classify thermally driven chillers based on their working modes (continuous, semi-continuous and batch mode) has been identified and, based on it, dedicated test procedures have been developed. The present work concerns with the development of the test procedures and with their application to a prototype of CW10 chiller .