Solar-gas solid sorption heat pump

Solid sorption short cycle heat pump (less than or equal to 10 kW) which uses physical adsorption and is of interest to the space and domestic application is designed and tested. This heat pump has a very short (12 min), non-intermittent, two adsorber heat recovery cycles with an active carbon fiber as a sorbent bed and ammonia as a working fluid. It has two energy sources: solar and gas flame. The system management consists only in actuating the special type valves to change the direction of the heating circuit and water valves to change the water cooling circuit. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.