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Numerical Simulation of the Mass-Transfer Process Between Ammonia and Water in the Absorption Chiller

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This paper describes the absorption process of gaseous ammonia into liquid water in the plate heat exchanger, which is considered to be the crucial part of an absorption cooling system. Two approaches are utilized to numerically simulate this absorption process. In the first approach, the dissolution of gaseous ammonia into liquid water, as well as the following chemical reaction between the dissolved liquid ammonia and liquid water, are modeled. In the second approach, only the dissolution of ammonia into water is considered. The Henry’s Law with Van’t Hoff correlation is used for the simulation of the ammonia absorption process, namely the calculation of the concentration of ammonia in gas and in liquid. The Henry’s law is utilized since its line has the best correlation with the ammonia-water equilibrium line for the concentrations, which is taken into account in the numerical simulations. The ammonia mass flux from gas to liquid phase and its concentration at the outlet of the computational domain is determined as a result of the simulations.

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The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of Czech Republic financially supported the presented work within the project LQ1603 Research for SUSEN. This work has been realized within the SUSEN Project established in the framework of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) in project CZ.1.05/2.1.00/03.0108 and of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) in the project CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_008/0000293 and collaboration with the research project No. 0117U003931 “Development and Implementation of Energy Efficient Modular Separation Devices for Oil and Gas Purification Equipment” at Sumy State University (Sumy, Ukraine). The work has been supported by the grant project Ziel – ETZ INTERREG V Project 53 Grenzüberschreitendes F&I Netzwerk für Energieeffizienz und Kraft-Wärme- (Kälte)-Kopplung/Přeshraniční síť pro výzkum a inovace v oblasti energetické účinnosti a kombinované výroby tepla a elektřiny (2016–2020).

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  1. University of West Bohemia, 22, Univerzitni Street, 32600, Pilsen, Czech Republic

    Michal Volf

  2. Sumy State University, 2, Rymskogo-Korsakova Street, Sumy, 40007, Ukraine

    Maryna Demianenko, Oleksandr Starynskyi & Oleksandr Liaposhchenko

  3. Wentworth Institute of Technology, 550, Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Alireza Mahdavi Nejad

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Volf, M., Demianenko, M., Starynskyi, O., Liaposhchenko, O., Nejad, A.M. (2020). Numerical Simulation of the Mass-Transfer Process Between Ammonia and Water in the Absorption Chiller. In: Ivanov, V., Pavlenko, I., Liaposhchenko, O., Machado, J., Edl, M. (eds) Advances in Design, Simulation and Manufacturing III. DSMIE 2020. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50491-5_23

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