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Chemical Engineering & Technology, Vol.34, No.10, 1603-1613, 2011
Advances in Organic Liquid-Gas Chemical Heat Pumps
Compared with inorganic chemical heat pumps (CHPs), organic liquid-gas CHPs are more amenable to be run as a continuous process because the reactants and products can be fed or removed continuously. Therefore, increasing attention has been paid to investigations of CHPs using the organic liquid-gas reaction system. Relevant research topics involved reaction catalyst, chemical reaction kinetics, reactive distillation, energy efficiency evaluation, economic analysis, etc. Nevertheless, the research on an organic liquid-gas CHP system is still in the elementary stage. A detailed review on the current research status of catalyst-assisted CHPs employing an organic liquid-gas reaction system has been performed. Existing problems are identified and future research directions are proposed.
Keywords:Catalytic reaction;Chemical heat pump;Heat recovery;Liquid-gas reaction;Organic reaction system