本次研讨会的大部分内容涉及水冷式空调系统，该系统利用平板集热器的太阳能作为基本能源。这些系统对太阳能加热和制冷的发展至关重要。然而，从长远来看，如果太阳能要在全国各地的住宅应用中实现相当普遍的使用，还需要开发风冷设备。本文的目的是回顾适用于风冷太阳能运行的吸收循环类型。所使用的示例代表吸收循环的变化，这些变化已经或似乎可能有一些商业用途。间歇循环不包括在内，因为对于大规模生产而言，间歇循环比连续循环更昂贵，效率更低。讨论将以氨水为基础，因为氨水是唯一适用于空气冷却的制冷剂吸收剂对，已被广泛使用。 结果将适用于更具吸收性的制冷剂组合，该组合可能能够风冷。引文:德克萨斯州达拉斯ASHRAE交易会第82卷第1部分研讨会

Much of this symposium refers to water-cooled air conditioning systems which utilize solar heatfrom flat plate collectors as their basic source of energy. Those systems are of primary importancein the development of solar heating and cooling. However, in the long term, if solarenergy is to achieve fairly universal use in residential applications across the country, itwill also be necessary to develop air-cooled equipment. The purpose of this paper is to reviewthe types of absorption cycles which may be suited to air-cooled solar operation. The examplesto be used represent variations of absorption cycles which have had, or seem likely to have,some commercial utilization. Intermittent cycles will not be included because for mass productionthey have been more expensive and less efficient than continuous cycles.The discussions will be based on ammonia-water since that is the only refrigerant-absorbentpair, suitable for air cooling, that has had general usage. The results will be applicable toother absorbent-refrigerant combinations which may be capable of being air-cooled.