CHEMICAL AND SORPTION HEAT ENGINES: STATE OF THE ART AND DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS
Yu. I. Aristov,a L. L. Vasiliev,b and V. E. Nakoryakovc UDC 621.57 The basic principles of operation of chemical and adsorption heat engines have been described. The advantages and new aspects of their application have been considered. A review of the state of the art in sorption technologies in different countries, as well as of the features of their application in Russia and Belarus is given. aG. K. Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk; bA. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072; cS. S. Kutateladze Institute of Thermal Physics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 81, No. 1, pp. 19-48, January-February, 2008. Original article submitted July 6, 2007.