The technical, economic, and environmental feasibility of a bioheat-driven adsorption cooling system for food cold storing: a case study of Rwanda

Ahmed A. Alammar; Ahmed Rezk; Abed Alaswad; Julia Fernando; A.G. Olabi; Stephanie Decker; Joseph Ruhumuliza; Quénan Gasana

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2022.124560

The technical, economic, and environmental feasibility of a bioheat-driven adsorption cooling system for food cold storing: a case study of Rwanda

Ahmed A. Alammar, Ahmed Rezk, Abed Alaswad, Julia Fernando, A.G. Olabi^*, Stephanie Decker, Joseph Ruhumuliza, Quénan Gasana

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This paper studies the technical, economic, and environmental feasibility of a standalone adsorption cooling system thermally driven by biomass combustion and solar thermal energy. The developed cooling package was benchmarked against a baseline vapour compression refrigeration system, driven by grid electricity and the widely investigated adsorption cooling system driven by solar heat. TRNSYS was utilised to imitate the integrated systems, investigate their year-round performance, and optimise their designs by employing the meteorological data for Rwanda and an existing cold room (13 m² floor area × 2.9 m height) as a case study. The optimisation study for the system revealed that maximum chiller performance (COP = 0.62), minimum biomass daily consumption (36 kg), and desired cold room setting temperature (10 °C) throughout the year can be achieved if the boiler setting temperature, heat storage size, and heating water flow rate are 95.13 °C, 0.01 m³ and 601.25 kg/h. An optimal PV area/battery size combination of 12 modules/16 kWh was obtained from the economic, environmental, and technical viewpoints.

Original language	English
Article number	124560
Number of pages	17
Journal	Energy
Volume	258
Early online date	21 Jul 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2022.124560
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2022

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Keywords

Adsorption cooling
Bioenergy
Food cold chain
TRNSYS

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Mechanical Engineering
Pollution
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
General Energy
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Building and Construction
Fuel Technology
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Civil and Structural Engineering
Modelling and Simulation

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