PERFORMANCE OF PARTITIONED-BED SORPTION HEAT-PUMP SYSTEMS

Traditional two-bed solid-sorbent sorption heat pumps have no partitions within the beds. During the operation of a solid-sorbent sorption heat pump, ammonia readsorption (i.e., ammonia reallocation from one end of a bed to the other) occurs within the beds, which is detrimental to system performance. One way to reduce the ammonia reallocation within a bed is to put partitions in a bed to divide the bed into several segments and reduce the cross-communication of ammonia within a bed. In this paper, the effect of the partitions on the performance of a sorption heat pump system is investigated.