TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abubakar,Bashir Kojoli
AU  - Bahlouli,Keyvan
TI  - PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION OF AN ABSORPTION HEAT TRANSFORMER CYCLE INTEGRATED TO SEA WATER DESALINATION SYSTEM
PY  - 2023///
KW  - Heat
KW  - Dissertations, Academic
KW  - Radiation and absorption
KW  - Exergy
N1  - Thesis (MSc) - Cyprus International University. Institute of Graduate Studies and Research Mechanical Engineering Department; Includes bibliography (sheets 47-48)
N2  - ABSTRACT
The absorption heat transformer (AHT) systems are devices with the unique capability 
of raising the temperature of low or moderately warm waste heat sources to more 
useful levels. In the current work, an absorption heat transformer cycle operating with 
the water/lithium bromide mixture connected to a water desalination unit is studied. 
For the purpose of performance analysis and parametric study, the cycle is modeled in 
the Engineering Equation Solver (EES) software. Then, a parametric analysis is carried 
out on the system to study the effect of variation of some important design parameters 
on the considered system. Results of the parametric study show that the COP of the 
cycle highly depends on the outlet temperature of the absorber heat exchanger. Also, 
the COP of the cycle decreases by increasing temperature of the condenser. 
Furthermore, the cycle's COP is moderately increasing as the source temperature 
increases too. This is also found that the highest exergy destruction happens in the
absorber. The amount of produced fresh water via desalination unit at the optimized 
condition is estimated as 0.1783 kg/s. 
Keywords: Absorption heat transformers, Desalination systems, Exergy analysis 
LiBr+H2O, Optimization
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