Applied Energy, Vol.72, No.3-4, 583-597, 2002
Performance simulation of an absorption heat transformer operating with partially miscible mixtures
This paper proposes to study the thermodynamics performances of a new absorption heat-transformer cycle, where the separation step is obtained by the cooling and settling of a partially miscible mixture at low temperature. This is new cycle has been called an absorption-demixing heat transformer (ADHT) cycle, A numerical simulation code has been written. and has allowed us to evaluate the temperature lift and thermal yield of 2 working pairs. Both high qualitative and quantitative performances have been obtained. so demonstrating the feasibility and industrial interest for such a cycle. Moreover a comparison of the simulation results with performances really obtained on an experimental ADHT has confirmed the pertinence of the simulation code.