Solar cooling
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Solar cooling is the use of solar thermal energy or solar electricity to power a cooling appliance.
There are five different approaches to solar cooling:
- absorption cooling, which can use solar thermal energy to vaporize the refrigerant;
- desiccant cooling, which can use solar thermal energy to regenerate (dry) the desiccant;
- vapor compression cooling, which can use solar thermal energy to operate a Rankine-cycle heat engine;
- evaporative coolers ("swamp" coolers);
- heat-pumps and air conditioners that can by powered by solar photovoltaic systems.