Traditional two-bed solid-sorbent sorption heat pumps have no partitio
ns within the beds. During the operation of a solid-sorbent sorption h
eat pump, ammonia readsorption (i.e., ammonia reallocation from one en
d of a bed to the other) occurs within the beds, which is detrimental
to system performance. One way to reduce the ammonia reallocation with
in a bed is to put partitions in a bed to divide the bed into several
segments and reduce the cross-communication of ammonia within a bed. I
n this paper, the effect of the partitions on the performance of a sor
ption heat pump system is investigated.