Ammonia-water power cycles are important for efficient utilization of low temperature heat sources such as geothermal, solar, waste heat sources, etc.For some special conditions ammonia-water power cycle is an important and economical option.This paper presents an exergetic analysis of a combined power and cooling cycle that uses ammonia-water mixture as working fluid.Such cycles, use solar or geothermal energy or waste heat energy from a conventional power cycle.Ammonia-water power cycle can be used as independent cycles to provide power output and cooling.For a range (25-55 Bar) of boiler pressure the performance of the combined power and cooling cycle is investigated.The exergy of the boiler is very low compared to its energy.There is a boiling process and a heat transfer process at low temperature, both of which destruct the energy given to the boiler, so that the energy efficiency is low; however the exergy efficiency is higher than the energy efficiency.Increasing the turbine inlet pressure decreases the energy and exergy efficiencies.
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Thermodynamic and Exergetic Analyses of Power and Cooling Systems