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[ Product Description ]
[Energy-saving Chiller & Heater Using Various Exhaust Gas]
This device uses exhaust gas generated during the production process of gas engine or plant to produce cold or hot water.
This chiller is an environment friendly and energy-saving product that enhances energy efficiency by reusing exhaust gas.
[High Efficiency Heating and Cooling System]
Highly efficient double effect absorption cycle is used for this exhaust gas absorption chiller and heater and it has high performance factor COP.
[High Efficiency and Energy-saving by Applying the Inverter]
This product maintains the optimal solution flowrate with absorbent pump inverter control and improves part loading efficiency greatly. Therefore, it saves energy and controls the optimal absorbent flowrate, thereby depleting the time required to reach the rated cooling capacity. High performance and special processing heat pipes are used for this product and the optimal arrangement of the pipes improved efficiency and minimized the area of installation, also decreasing operational costs.
[The Cooling Cycle of Double Effect Exhaust Gas Driven Absorption Chiller]
The double-effect, exhaust-gas driven absorption machine is consisted of an evaporator, absorber, condenser, high/low temperature generators, solution heat exchangers, refrigerant & solution pumps, purge system, controls and accessories.
When the chiller is under cooling mode, water boils at a low temperature approximately at 4.4˚C (40˚F) because it is under vacuum condition. Thereby chilled water is cooled down through the tubes in evaporator by the evaporative latent heat. The process of this cycle is like below. A refrigerant pump is used to spray the refrigerant(distilled water) over the evaporator tubes to improve heat transfer.
To make the cooling process continuous, the refrigerant (water) vapor flows into the absorber and it is absorbed in lithium bromide solution (which has a high affinity for water) As this process continues, the lithium bromide becomes diluted solution and reduce its absorption capacity. A solution pump then transfers this diluted solution to the generators where it is re-concentrated in two stages (double-effect) to boil off the previously absorbed water.
The diluted solution is pumped to the high-temperature generator where it is heated and re-concentrated to a medium concentration solution by the exhaust heat from the gas turbine or reciprocating engine exhaust gas. The intermediate solution from the high-temperature generator flows to the low-temperature generator where it is heated to become a concentrated solution by the high temperature water vapor released from the solution in the high temperature generator.
Since the low-stage generator acts as the condenser for the high-stage generator, the heat energy firstly applied in the high-stage generator is used again in the low-stage generator, thus reduced heat input is approximately 45% compared to an single-stage chiller.
Vapor released in the shell side of the low-stage generator enters the condenser to be cooled and return to a liquid state. The refrigerant water then returns to the evaporator to begin a new cycle.
To remove heat from the machine, cooling water from a cooling tower is firstly circulated through the tubes of the absorber to remove the heat of vaporization. The water is then circulated through the tubes of the condenser. The re-concentrated (strong) solution from the low temp. generator flows back to the absorber to begin a new cycle.
For efficiency purposes, the medium concentration solution from the high-temp. generator passes through the high-temperature solution heat exchanger to pre-heat the diluted (weak) solution, while pre-cooling the medium concentration solution. The re-concentrated (strong) solution from the low-temp. generator passes through the low temperature solution heat exchanger to pre-heat/cool the solution before being returned to the absorber.
[The Heating Cycle of Double Effect Exhaust Gas Driven Absorption Chiller]
During heating mode, the absorber-condenser cooling water circuit is different from typical absorption process.
High temperature water vapor produced in the high-temperature generator section passes directly to the evaporator via the absorber and transfers its heat to the tube bundles and hot water is heated from 55˚C to 60˚C.
The Condensed water in evaporator flows to the absorber section and be mixed with the concentrated solution returning from the high temperature generator.
The diluted solution is pumped back to the high temperature generator to repeat the vapor generation phase for the heating function.
To changeover the chiller mode from cooling to heating is simple.
Change the position of chiller mode in the control panel first and drain the absorber-condenser water circuit and put the machine into heating mode by switching the positions of change valve.
The hot water inlet temperatures is 60˚C (140˚F) as a standard and 80˚C (176˚F) as an option with the additional heat exchanger.