REVIEWS

NEW COMPOSITE SORBENTS OF WATER AND AMMONIA FOR CHEMICAL AND 
ADSORPTION HEAT PUMPS

Yu. I. Aristova and L. L. Vasilievb

UDC 621.575.9

New sorbents of water and ammonia — "salt in porous matrix" composites
and "salt on fiber" composites — have been reviewed. The possibility
of "constructing" the sorption properties of the composites at the
nanophase level by varying their composition, the size of the host-matrix 
pores, and synthesis conditions has been shown. The application of the new
materials in adsorption refrigerating devices has been considered.

aG. K. Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Siberian Branch
of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 5 Akad. Lavrentiev Ave., Novosibirsk,
630090, Russia; email: aristov@catalysis.nsk.su; bA. V. Luikov
Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus,
15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, Belarus; email: lvasil@hmti.ac.by.
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 79, No. 6, pp. 160–175,
November–December, 2006. Original article submitted April 18, 2006.