Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran.
Department of Energy, Faculty of New Science and Technologies, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2022 Jun;29(28):42616-42646. doi: 10.1007/s11356-022-19993-3. Epub 2022 Apr 6.
Solar energy is the most sustainable and free source to manage the world energy demand. One aspect of solar-driven energy supply can be observed in cooling systems. Recently, solar energy-based cooling systems have received many attentions. Solar cooling systems utilizing solar collectors, as the renewable and sustainable-based solution, have the good potentials to overcome the challenges associated with consumption of fossil fuels. In this study, the recent advances about the potentials of dish collectors and linear Fresnel reflectors for the usage in the cooling systems are reviewed. In addition, the solar-powered conventional absorption chiller and cryogenic systems are investigated. Hybrid cooling solar systems and solar-based combined cooling, heating, and power systems are also studied. The hydrogen production in cooling integrated systems and cold thermal energy storage are discussed. In each section, in addition to general description of the system, some explanations about the thermodynamic and economic aspects of the systems are provided. Finally, the main results of the review are summarized and based on the available gaps between the literatures, some suggestions are provided for the future studies. It was found that using solar dish collectors in a hybrid system, designed for the freshwater and LNG production, causes carbon dioxide emissions reduction by 40%, and also increases freshwater and LNG production by 95% and 4.7%, respectively. In the hybrid trigeneration solar-biomass power plants, using the linear Fresnel reflector leads to 29% save in biomass and land.
太阳能是满足世界能源需求最可持续和免费的资源。太阳能驱动能源供应的一个方面可以在冷却系统中观察到。最近，太阳能制冷系统受到了很多关注。利用太阳能集热器的太阳能制冷系统作为可再生和可持续的解决方案，具有克服与化石燃料消耗相关的挑战的良好潜力。在本研究中，回顾了碟形集热器和线性菲涅耳反射器在冷却系统中的应用潜力的最新进展。此外，还研究了太阳能驱动的常规吸收式制冷机和低温系统。还研究了混合冷却太阳能系统和太阳能联合供冷、供热和电力系统。讨论了冷却集成系统中的制氢和冷热能储存。在每个部分，除了系统的一般描述外，还提供了系统热力学和经济性方面的一些解释。最后，总结了综述的主要结果，并根据文献中的差距，为未来的研究提出了一些建议。结果发现，在为淡水和液化天然气生产设计的混合系统中使用太阳能碟形集热器，可以将二氧化碳排放量减少 40%，同时将淡水和液化天然气的产量分别提高 95%和 4.7%。在太阳能-生物质混合三联发电系统中，使用线性菲涅耳反射器可使生物质和土地分别节省 29%。
