Experimental Research on the Vapor Pressures of CaCl2–H2O and MgCl2–H2O as Working Fluids of Absorption Heat Transformers at High Temperature
Experimental Research on the Vapor Pressures of CaCl2–H2O and MgCl2–H2O as Working Fluids of Absorption Heat Transformers at High Temperature
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10.1021/acs.jced.1c00397
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2021-11
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Jielin Luo;Ruirui Zheng;Shao-zhi Zhang;Guangming Chen;Qin Wang
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作者:
Jielin Luo;Ruirui Zheng;Shao-zhi Zhang;Guangming Chen;Qin Wang
Aqueous calcium chloride solution (CaCl2–H2O) and magnesium chloride solution (MgCl2–H2O) are regarded as potential working fluids of absorption heat transformers (AHTs) because of their characteristics of low corrosiveness. The vapor pressure of a working fluid is an important property for applications in absorption systems. However, current experimental data are mostly limited to temperature and concentration ranges, which are suitable for dehumidification systems, whose temperature requirement is always lower than 323.15 K. Thus, more accurate data of vapor pressures are anticipated. In this paper, the equilibrium vapor pressures of aqueous CaCl2and MgCl2solution were measured with the static method in the temperature range from 323.15 to 373.15 K. The mass fraction of CaCl2varied from 0.1 to 0.5, and the mass fraction of MgCl2varied from 0.05 to 0.3. The measured data were correlated with a common-used e–NRTL model, whose average absolute relative deviations (AARD) for CaCl2–H2O and MgCl2–H2O were 2.27 and 1.61%, respectively. The data were then correlated with a modified Antoine equation, and the AARD were reduced to 0.51 and 0.50%, respectively. The thermodynamic performance of CaCl2–H2O and MgCl2–H2O for the AHT were also estimated for a typical cycle. The results demonstrate that compared with the common-used LiBr–H2O, both CaCl2–H2O and MgCl2–H2O deliver lower circulation ratios with a coefficient of performance difference less than 2%, so their application prospects are illustrated.