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Article

Performance Assessment of an Ice-Production Hybrid Solar CPV/T System Combining Both Adsorption and Vapor-Compression Refrigeration Systems

by
Mahmoud Badawy Elsheniti
1,2,*,
Abdulrahman AlRabiah
1,
Hany Al-Ansary
1,3,
Zeyad Almutairi
1,3,4,
Jamel Orfi
1,3 and
Abdelrahman El-Leathy
1,5
1
Mechanical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
2
Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria 21544, Egypt
3
K.A.CARE Energy Research and Innovation Center at Riyadh, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
4
Sustainable Energy Technologies Center, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
5
Mechanical Power Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, El-Mataria, Helwan University, Cairo 11718, Egypt
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sustainability 2023, 15(4), 3711; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043711
Submission received: 10 January 2023 / Revised: 10 February 2023 / Accepted: 15 February 2023 / Published: 17 February 2023
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Grid Technologies and Renewable Energy Applications)
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Abstract

The technology of a hybrid solar concentration photovoltaic/thermal (CPV/T) system is an efficient way of converting solar energy to heat and electrical power, in which overall energy-extraction efficiency is at its highest. In this study, numerical dynamic simulation models were developed for a hybrid solar CPV/T system and an adsorption refrigeration system (ARS). Under the climatic conditions of Riyadh all year round, the electrical and thermal powers generated by the CPV/T system were used to estimate the ice production of both the vapor compression refrigeration system (VCS) and the ARS. The CPV/T system can provide a thermal energy of 37.6 kWh and electrical energy of 24.7 kWh a day on average over the year using a 12.5 m2 facing area of Fresnel lenses. The ARS employed an advanced approach which used Maxsorb III adsorbent packed in two aluminum foam beds. An optimum cycle time of the ARS was adapted for each month to match the variation in the thermal energy, while a variable-speed compressor was chosen for the VCS. Due to its higher coefficient of performance (COP), the proposed solar hybrid system can produce 494.4 kg of ice per day while sharing 84.5% of the VCS. The average solar COP over the year of the hybrid system can attain 0.875, which represents a promising value for a solar ice-production system.
Keywords: solar concentration; photovoltaic thermal; adsorption ice production; solar COP; metal foam solar concentration; photovoltaic thermal; adsorption ice production; solar COP; metal foam

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Elsheniti, M.B.; AlRabiah, A.; Al-Ansary, H.; Almutairi, Z.; Orfi, J.; El-Leathy, A. Performance Assessment of an Ice-Production Hybrid Solar CPV/T System Combining Both Adsorption and Vapor-Compression Refrigeration Systems. Sustainability 2023, 15, 3711. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043711

AMA Style

Elsheniti MB, AlRabiah A, Al-Ansary H, Almutairi Z, Orfi J, El-Leathy A. Performance Assessment of an Ice-Production Hybrid Solar CPV/T System Combining Both Adsorption and Vapor-Compression Refrigeration Systems. Sustainability. 2023; 15(4):3711. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043711

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Elsheniti, Mahmoud Badawy, Abdulrahman AlRabiah, Hany Al-Ansary, Zeyad Almutairi, Jamel Orfi, and Abdelrahman El-Leathy. 2023. "Performance Assessment of an Ice-Production Hybrid Solar CPV/T System Combining Both Adsorption and Vapor-Compression Refrigeration Systems" Sustainability 15, no. 4: 3711. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043711

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Elsheniti, M. B., AlRabiah, A., Al-Ansary, H., Almutairi, Z., Orfi, J., & El-Leathy, A. (2023). Performance Assessment of an Ice-Production Hybrid Solar CPV/T System Combining Both Adsorption and Vapor-Compression Refrigeration Systems. Sustainability, 15(4), 3711. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043711

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