Abstract: City’s electricity power grid is under heavy load during on-peak hours throughout summer cooling season. As the result, many utility companies implemented the time-of-use rate of electricity leading to high electricity ...

Abstract: A unique hybrid cooling, heating, and power (HCHP) concept has been recently developed as an alternative to environmental control units. It combines a small-scale organic Rankine cycle (ORC) with a vapor compression cycle. ...

Abstract: The objective of this study was to develop a strategy for miniaturizing heat exchangers (HXs) used for the thermal management of sorbent beds within adsorption refrigeration systems. The thermal mass of the microchannel ...