Development of an adsorption chiller and heat pump for domestic heating and air-conditioning applications

The scope of this paper is to present the development of a prototype of a small adsorption heat pump working on the adsorption pair silica gel-water. The development of this prototype with remarkable high power densities has been carried out during the last year and is a result of continued joint work on adsorption heat transformation systems carried out at SorTech AG and the Fraunhofer Institute.