This Note describes a rotary-absorption heat pump combined with a vapour recompression system. The absorption heat pump employs process intensification which exploits centrifugal fields. The heat pump has been analysed thermodynamically using H2O/LiBr and H2O/NaOH-KOH-CsOH combinations.
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