Richard Levine, LBD Associates, LLC, Randolph, NJ
Articles
Lubrication
December 15, 2001
Why absorption chillers fail
Lithium bromide-based absorption refrigeration is a viable system capable of providing large-tonnage central air conditioning. Water is flash boiled under vacuum at low temperatures. This boiling action cools evaporator or chilled water coils (Fig. 1). As the flashed water vapor accumulates inside the chiller, vacuum is lost.
By Richard Levine, LBD Associates, LLC, Randolph, NJ