COLD PRODUCTION THROUGH COUPLING OF SOLID -GAS REACTORS .1. PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS

Among the sorption processes, those based on solid-gas chemical reacti ons (of the chloride-ammonia gas type) have shown their advantages, pa rticularly by their significant number of reagents reacting with a sim ilar type of gas and by their imposed monovariant equilibrium conditio n. These systems, of simple or double effect, could be based on the ex change of one gas with two reagents of different nature, the choice of which depends on the required temperature level. Like the chiller-hea ter, these systems have shown a flexibility of functioning where 17 co uples of chlorides could be used to react with ammonia gas and therefo re could be able to produce simultaneously cold between - 15-degrees-C and 20-degrees-C, and heat at up to 80-degrees-C.