Environmental Impact Assessment for an Absorption Heat Transformer

Abstract

This study presents the environmental impact assessment of an absorption heat transformer de-signed to recover 1 kW of thermal energy from each 2 kW of waste heat supplies. The net contri-bution 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.