State and prospects of development of refrigeration technology in the field of adsorption cooling

A literature review oriented to determine a position of adsorption cooling in the refrigerating engineering is presented. It is shown that alternative methods of cooling became important for consideration since the image of traditional ones had become globally mixed. The prospects for adsorption cooling associated with the discovery of fundamentally new sorption materials and methods of their studying are considered. Some details of original investigation carried out at the SPb. St. Technical University are also presented.