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This paper thermodynamically analyzes an air-cooled type double effect absorption refrigeration system using ammonia/lithium nitrate and ammonia/sodium thiocyanate solutions as working pairs and driven by high temperature heat source such as waste heat energy, innovatively, an air-cooled type non-adiabatic absorber is implemented in the system to improve the cycle performance. Comparing to the single effect absorption refrigeration system, the double effect system is designed not only to directly and efficiently utilize high temperature waste heat energy for cycle performance improvement, but also to greatly extend the application occasion to high ambient temperature condition. Parametric analysis of the present system show that COP of the double effect system is 30–60% higher than the single effect system under air cooling working condition and the high pressure generating temperature of the double effect system can be extended to as high as 220 °C. Influences of high pressure generator temperature, low pressure generator temperature, absorber outlet solution temperature as well as other system working parameters on cycle performance are numerically simulated and parametric optimization is provided in the present model. Cycle performance comparison of NH 3 /LiNO 3 system with NH 3 /NaSCN system has been carried out. According to the simulation results, COP of NH 3 /NaSCN system is found to be 10–15% higher than that of NH 3 /LiNO 3 system in evaporating temperature range of - 10 ° C < T e < 5 ° C . However in low evaporating temperature conditions, T e ⩽ - 10 ° C , NH 3 /LiNO 3 systems are found to be more competitive than that of NH 3 /NaSCN system. The main concern of the present study is that implementation of non-adiabatic absorbers in air-cooled type double effect ammonia/salt absorption refrigeration systems is essential, and only under non-adiabatic absorption conditions can the double effect ammonia/salt system realize miniaturization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a methodology of exergy analysis for ammonia-lithium nitrate and ammonia-sodium thiocyanate absorption refrigeration cycle which applies a novel air-cooled type non-adiabatic absorber to improve both the coefficient of performance and exegetic efficiency of the system under air cooling condition. A modified entropy calculation method for NH 3 /NaSCN and NH 3 /LiNO 3 solutions is presented in this literature and different results are obtained comparing to previous research. In addition to the variation of solution temperature and pressure from specific working state to the reference state, the variation of solution concentration, which was always neglected by previous researchers in ammonia/salt solution exergy calculation, has been taken into account while analyzing the least potential of ammonia/salt solution for doing useful work, and a corresponding approach for specific exergy calculation is presented. The effects of generator temperature, absorber outlet temperature, absorber efficiency and other system parameters on system exergetic efficiency have been discussed in this study. Analysis results indicate that relatively high system performance can be obtained by air-cooled type ammonia/salt absorption refrigeration cycles when non-adiabatic absorbers are applied in these systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]