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CONTENTS<br />

4.2.3 SOFC stack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84<br />

4.2.4 Exhaust gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85<br />

4.3 Absorption Single Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86<br />

4.3.1 Refrigerant cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87<br />

4.3.2 Solution cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87<br />

4.3.3 Pumping factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88<br />

4.4 Absorption Double Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89<br />

4.5 Absorption Double Stage, Dual Heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92<br />

4.6 Cooling Tower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94<br />

4.6.1 Wet Tower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95<br />

4.6.2 Dry Tower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95<br />

4.6.3 Hot Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95<br />

4.7 System calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97<br />

4.7.1 Efficiencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97<br />

4.8 Verification <strong>of</strong> Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100<br />

4.8.1 Energy balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100<br />

4.8.2 Check <strong>of</strong> heat exchangers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100<br />

4.9 Validation <strong>of</strong> Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101<br />

4.9.1 SOFC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101<br />

4.9.2 Absorption cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102<br />

5 Simulation <strong>and</strong> Results 105<br />

5.1 Basic absorption cooling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105<br />

5.1.1 Changing the desorber temperature . . . . . . . . . . . 106<br />

5.1.2 Changing condenser temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . 109<br />

5.1.3 Changing evaporator temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . 111<br />

5.1.4 Changing absorber temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112<br />

5.1.5 Summing up the general behavior <strong>of</strong> the absorption<br />

cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113<br />

5.2 System configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114<br />

5.2.1 Single, Double, Dual Heat (+/- Air Preheat) . . . . . . 115<br />

5.2.2 Wet vs Dry cooling <strong>and</strong> ambient temperature . . . . . 117<br />

5.2.3 ∆T min,Tower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119<br />

5.3 Partial optimization <strong>of</strong> st<strong>and</strong>ard parameters . . . . . . . . . . 120<br />

5.3.1 Outer conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120<br />

5.3.2 Desorber temperatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123<br />

5.3.3 SOFC subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125<br />

5.3.4 Closest Approach Temperature Differences (∆T min ) . 135<br />

5.3.5 ∆T for external circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140<br />

5.3.6 Hot Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140<br />

5.4 Sensitivity Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142<br />

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