TY - JOUR N2 - Adsorption cooling and desalination technologies have recently received more attention. Adsorption chillers, using eco-friendly refrigerants, provide promising abilities for low-grade waste heat recovery and utilization, especially renewable and waste heat of the near ambient temperature. However, due to the low coefficient of performance (COP) and cooling capacity (CC) of the chillers, they have not been widely commercialized. Although operating in combined heating and cooling (HC) systems, adsorption chillers allow more efficient conversion and management of low-grade sources of thermal energy, their operation is still not sufficiently recognized, and the improvement of their performance is still a challenging task. The paper introduces an artificial intelligence (AI) approach for the optimization study of a two-bed adsorption chiller operating in an existing combined HC system, driven by low-temperature heat from cogeneration. Artificial neural networks are employed to develop a model that allows estimating the behavior of the chiller. Two crucial energy efficiency and performance indicators of the adsorption chiller, i.e., CC and the COP, are examined during the study for different operating sceneries and a wide range of operating conditions. Thus this work provides useful guidance for the operating conditions of the adsorption chiller integrated into the HC system. For the considered range of input parameters, the highest CC and COP are equal to 12.7 and 0.65 kW, respectively. The developed model, based on the neurocomputing approach, constitutes an easy-to-use and powerful optimization tool for the adsorption chiller operating in the complex HC system. L1 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/119620/PDF/19_01879_Bpast.No.69(3)_23.06.21_Druk.pdf L2 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/119620 PY - 2021 IS - 3 EP - e137054 DO - 10.24425/bpasts.2021.137054 KW - adsorption heat pumps KW - polygeneration KW - cooling capacity KW - low-grade thermal energy KW - artificial neural networks KW - soft computing A1 - Krzywanski, Jarosław A1 - Sztekler, Karol A1 - Bugaj, Marcin A1 - Kalawa, Wojciech A1 - Grabowska, Karolina A1 - Chaja, Patryk Robert A1 - Sosnowski, Marcin A1 - Nowak, Wojciech A1 - Mika, Łukasz A1 - Bykuć, Sebastian VL - 69 DA - 12.04.2021 T1 - Adsorption chiller in a combined heating and cooling system: simulation and optimization by neural networks SP - e137054 UR - http://www.journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/119620 T2 - Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences Technical Sciences ER -