Solar Air Conditioning

Heat-driven refrigerators, air conditioners or heat pumps in which the energy source is a burning fuel or waste heat has been commercially available for nearly a hundred years. The conventional air conditioner performs a vapor compression cycle which demands a mechanical work input and which is normally provided by an electric motor. Though counter-intuitive, heat-driven adsorption machines use heat energy to power the cycle.

Technical background

Adsorption refrigeration and heat pump cycles rely on the adsorption of a refrigerant gas into an adsorbent at low pressure and subsequent desorption by heating. The adsorbent acts as a ‘chemical compressor’ driven by heat.

The Crosley IcyBall and Albert Einstein's Refrigerator are just two historic applications while a study of Gas_absorption_refrigerator will lead to modern large scale commercial applications.

Residential Applications

This websiite is established to pursue exploration, study and testing of the technology for its applications to residential air conditioning use.