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Book SynopsisAdsorption energy systems can be driven by thermal energy from waste heat or the sun and thereby allow reducing fossil energy consumption and thus reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. Adsorption heat pumps and chillers can provide heating or cooling, adsorption thermal energy storage allows storing thermal energy. However, adsorption energy systems suffer from high investment costs due to low performance.
Performance of adsorption energy systems strongly depends on the equilibrium properties of the working pair as well as heat and mass transfer mechanisms of the adsorption material in the adsorption energy system (adsorbent configuration).
Evaluating new working pairs and adsorbent configurations is rather challenging: While the working pair''s equilibrium properties can be determined with standardized measurement equipment, heat and mass transfer mechanisms cannot easily be determined, since they strongly depend on the full-scale adsorption energy system. Constructio
