Solar-powered absorption chillers: A comprehensive and critical review

A Shirazi, RA Taylor, GL Morrison, SD White - Energy conversion and …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Solar heating and cooling (SHC) systems are currently under rapid development and
deployment due to their potential to reduce fossil fuel use and to alleviate greenhouse gas …

A review for phase change materials (PCMs) in solar absorption refrigeration systems

MMA Khan, R Saidur, FA Al-Sulaiman - Renewable and sustainable energy …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Energy storage has become an important part in renewable energy technology systems.
Solar thermal systems, unlike photovoltaic systems with striving efficiencies, are industrially …

Review on sorption materials and technologies for heat pumps and thermal energy storage

LF Cabeza, A Solé, C Barreneche - Renewable Energy, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Sorption is used for absorption/adsorption heat pumps (sorption refrigeration) and sorption
for thermal energy storage (TES). This paper is the first review where the research on both …

A comprehensive techno-economical review of indirect solar desalination

MT Ali, HES Fath, PR Armstrong - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Solar powered desalination has been the focus of great interest recently worldwide. In the
past, majority of the experimental investigations focused on solar coupled thermally driven …

Solar cooling with absorption chillers, thermal energy storage, and control strategies: A review

NI Ibrahim, A Yahiaoui, JA Garkuwa, RB Mansour… - Journal of Energy …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Solar cooling technology is a potential solution for air conditioning and thermal comfort in
buildings. However, the intermittent nature of solar energy is a significant challenge for the …

Review of solar cooling methods and thermal storage options

LA Chidambaram, AS Ramana, G Kamaraj… - … and sustainable energy …, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Power shortage and unstable power supply remain serious problems. Conventional cooling
technologies that utilize harmful refrigerants consume more energy and cause peak loads …

Recent developments in solar thermal desalination technologies: a review

I Ullah, MG Rasul - Energies, 2018‏ - mdpi.com
Fresh water resources are depleting rapidly as the water demand around the world
continues to increase. Fresh water resources are also not equally distributed geographically …

A review for research and new design options of solar absorption cooling systems

XQ Zhai, M Qu, Y Li, RZ Wang - Renewable and sustainable energy …, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Solar cooling technology is environmentally friendly and contributes to a significant
decrease of the CO2 emissions which cause the green house effect. Currently, most of the …

Transient simulation and parametric study of solar-assisted heating and cooling absorption systems: An energetic, economic and environmental (3E) assessment

A Shirazi, RA Taylor, SD White, GL Morrison - Renewable Energy, 2016‏ - Elsevier
This paper presents energetic, economic, and environmental (3E) analyses of four
configurations of solar heating and cooling (SHC) systems based on coupling evacuated …

Dynamic simulation of an integrated solar-driven ejector based air conditioning system with PCM cold storage

Y Allouche, S Varga, C Bouden, AC Oliveira - Applied energy, 2017‏ - Elsevier
The development of a dynamic model using the TRaNsient System Simulation program
(TRNSYS) for the performance assessment of a solar-driven air conditioning system with …