Solar energy is widely used as one of the most important renewable energy. In addition to the growing applications of solar PV and solar water heater, solar cooling is also considered very valuable and the related researches are developing fast because of the synchronism between solar irradiance and building cooling load. Current studies mainly focus on the high temperature solar collector technique and heat-driven cooling technique, while little concern has been paid to the transport process of cool-ing power. In this paper, the high temperature radiant cooling is studied as an alternative way for transporting cooling power, and the performance of the combination of radiant ceiling and solar cool-ing is also studied. From simulation and theoretical analysis results, high temperature radiant cooling terminal shows better cooling power transportation ability against conventional air-conditioning ter-minal, and its thermal comfort is improved. Experiment results indicate that radiant cooling can en-hance the chiller's COP (Coefficient of Performance) by 17% and cooling power regeneration by 50%. According to analysis in this paper, high temperature radiant cooling is proved to be suitable for solar cooling system, and out work can serve as a reference for later system design and promotion.
A closed-cycle solar-powered adsorption cooling system is designed.The system is mainly composed of the evacuated tubular solar collectors with an area of 150 m^2,two adsorption chillers with a rated cooling capacity of 15 kW,a cooling tower,fan coils and circulating pumps.The experiments were carried out to study the operating characteristics and the performance of the system.It is found that the operation of the system presents wave characteristics because of low water capacity.The water temperatures of the inlet and the outlet of the solar collector array cyclically swing since the water entering the solar collector array comes directly from the adsorption chillers.Besides,the inlet water temperature of the adsorption chillers varies distinctly.However,the cooling effect of the system is satisfactory.Compared with an open-cycle system,the closed-cycle system has the advantage of a high electric COP（coefficient of performance）because of the reduced use of circulating pumps.
