Patent attributes
The invention provides an absorption cooling system of the type including a liquid absorbent that remains in the liquid phase throughout the operation cycle, and a refrigerant having both a liquid phase and a vapor phase in the cycle, the basic system being powered by heat extracted from a hot fluid and powered auxiliary components, the system including the five basic components of a generator, an economizer, a condenser, an evaporator and an absorber, and further including a fluid circuit for the rich solution including a circulation pump, a fluid circuit for the lean solution, and for the refrigerant gas extracted from the liquid absorbent and replaced therein, partial circuits for hot fluid and for a cooling fluid, a jet mixer operating to mix saturated refrigerant gas with the lean solution to re-form the rich solution, the improvement comprising installing means for increasing the pressure of the saturated refrigerant gas flowing from the evaporator to the jet mixer.
