Development of a gas-engine-driven chiller. Annual report, May 1985-September 1986

Technical Report · Mon Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1987

OSTI ID:5803213

Panora, R; Koplow, M; Gehret, J

This report covers the first 17 months of activity in a program to develop a natural gas engine-driven chiller with a nominal capacity of 130 tons and an optional waste heat recovery of approximately 6 therms per hour from the engine jacket and exhaust. The system is based on an oil-flooded screw compressor driven by a 454 cubic-inch-displacement automotive engine converted to operate on natural gas. During the period covered by the report, two prototype chillers were fabricated and tested. In the laboratory and in the field, the waste heat was used to power absorption chillers producing at full load about 30 tons of additional cooling, increasing the system COP to 1.65 at full load.

• Research Organization: TECOGEN, Inc., Waltham, MA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5803213
• Report Number(s): PB-88-130018/XAB; TE-4373-21-87
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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03 NATURAL GAS
034000 -- Natural Gas-- Combustion
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
320303* -- Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization-- Industrial & Agricultural Processes-- Equipment & Processes
ADSORPTION
AIR CONDITIONING
CAPACITY
COMPRESSORS
COOLING
ENGINES
FLUIDS
FUELS
GAS FUELS
GASES
HEAT ENGINES
INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
LABORATORIES
RECOVERY
SORPTION
VAPORS
WASTE HEAT UTILIZATION
WASTE PRODUCT UTILIZATION