Absorption chiller
The Illustrated Guide to Renewable Technologies BG 1/2008, By Kevin Pennycook, published by BSRIA in March 2008, defines an absorption chiller as: ‘A chiller based on the absorption refrigeration process in which cooling is provided by the expansion of liquid ammonia into gas and absorption of the gas by water; the ammonia is reused after the water evaporates’
--BSRIA
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