吸收式制冷机类型的大型太阳能驱动冷却系统提供了将太阳能应用于建筑物空调的机会，同时节省了传统能源。在尝试实现这项技术时，会遇到许多复杂的设计问题。例如，现成的太阳能装置工作温度范围处于制冷机有效运行所需范围的低端。对1980年冷却季节在各种气候条件下运行的八个这样的系统进行了研究，并在国家太阳能数据网（NSDN）内进行了测试。以下是这项研究的总结结果。参考文献中包含了关于这些系统性能的更多细节，以及吸收式制冷机及其在太阳能设计中的应用的简要讨论。 1邀请:研讨会，ASHRAE交易，第88卷，第一部分，德克萨斯州休斯顿

Large solar driven cooling systems of the absorption chiller type offer opportunities to apply solar energy to the air conditioning of buildings with the attendant savings in conventional energy resources. Many complex design problems are encountered in the attempt to implement this technology. For instance, the range of readily available solar installation operating temperatures is at the low end of the required range for effective operation of the chillers. A study has been made of eight such systems which were operated in a variety of climates during the 1980 cooling season and instrumented within the National Solar Data Network (NSDN). Presented here are summary results of this study. Considerably more detail on the performance of these systems is contained in the reference along with a brief discussion of absorption chillers and their application in solar designs.1