Heat-driven hydride slurry heat pumps
Abstract Thermodynamic analysis and experiments are presented for a heat-driven hydride slurry heat pump (HHSHP). The thermodynamic analysis indicates that a HHSHP can achieve cooling coefficient of performance (COPc) values >0.7. A packed bed reactor was designed and fabricated to evaluate the importance of the absorption resistance in the hydrogen-liquid-hydride slurry (HLHS) reactor. It was observed that the packed bed reactor minimizes the absorption resistance effectively. With the use of packed bed reactors the HHSHP may be a practical heat pump system.