TITLE:
Environmental Impact Assessment for an Absorption Heat Transformer
AUTHORS:
Jorge Avelino Domínguez Patiño, Antonio Rodríguez Martínez, Rosenberg Javier Romero, Jonathan Ibarra-Bahena, Martha Lilia Domínguez Patiño
KEYWORDS:
Environmental Impact, Life Cycle Assessment, LCA, Absorption Heat Transformer, Waste Heat Recovery
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Applied Sciences,
Vol.6 No.7,
July
22,
2016
ABSTRACT: This study presents the environmental impact assessment of an absorption heat transformer designed to recover 1 kW of thermal energy from each 2 kW of waste heat supplies. The net contribution of the heat transformer is a load avoided of 0.665 kg CO2 equivalents; the recovery process avoids 0.729 kg CO2 equivalents and the major contribution to the environment impacts is the pumping process with 0.0437 kg CO2 equivalents for each 1 kWh recovered. The study results show that absorption heat transformer is a good environmental option because it produces useful energy from waste heat and the final result is an environmental impact diminution.