The Technical, Economic, and Environmental Feasibility of a Bioheat-Driven Adsorption Cooling System for Food Cold Storing: A Case Study of Rwanda

Ahmed Alammar; Ahmed Rezk; Abed Alaswad; Julia Fernando; Stephanie Decker; Abdul Ghani Olabi; Joseph Ruhumuliza; Quenan Gasana

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3937950

The Technical, Economic, and Environmental Feasibility of a Bioheat-Driven Adsorption Cooling System for Food Cold Storing: A Case Study of Rwanda

Ahmed Alammar, Ahmed Rezk^*, Abed Alaswad, Julia Fernando, Stephanie Decker, Abdul Ghani Olabi^*, Joseph Ruhumuliza, Quenan Gasana

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Management - Business School

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This paper studies the technical, economic, and environmental feasibility of a standalone adsorption cooling system that is thermally driven by biomass combustion and solar photovoltaic energy. The developed cooling package was benchmarked against a baseline vapour compression refrigeration system, driven by grid electricity and the widely investigated adsorption cooling system driven by solar heat. TRNSYS was utilised to imitate the integrated systems, investigate their performance throughout the year, and optimise their designs by employing the meteorological data for Rwanda and an existing cold room (13 m 2 floor area × 2.9 m height) as a case study. The optimisation study for the system revealed that maximum chiller performance (COP = 0.62), minimum biomass daily consumption (36 kg), and desired cold room setting temperature (10 °C) throughout the year can be achieved if the boiler setting temperature, heat storage size, and heating water flow rate are 95.13 °C, 0.01 m 3 and 601.25 Kg/h. An optimal PV area/battery size combination of 12 modules / 16 kWh was observed from the economic, environmental, and technical viewpoints.

Original language	English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3937950
Publication status	Published - 2021

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Name	SSRN Electronic Journal
ISSN (Print)	1556-5068

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Global Political Economy
MGMT Strategy International Management and Business and Entrepreneurship
MGMT theme Sustainable Production and Consumption
MGMT theme Global Political Economy
Perivoli Africa Research Centre (PARC)

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Modelling of cold store for agro-products using solar-driven adsorption chiller under Rwandan environmental conditions
Alammar, A., Rezk, A., Alaswad, A., Decker, S. D., Ruhumuliza, J. & Gasana, Q., 10 Dec 2020, ICAE2020: The 12th International Conference on Applied Energy, Bangkok, Thailand, 1/12/20.
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Cooling for life in sub-Saharan Africa
Decker, S. (Co-Investigator)
1/08/19 → 31/12/20
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The Technical, Economic, and Environmental Feasibility of a Bioheat-Driven Adsorption Cooling System for Food Cold Storing: A Case Study of Rwanda

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Modelling of cold store for agro-products using solar-driven adsorption chiller under Rwandan environmental conditions

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