Adsorption air-conditioning system

A vehicle air-conditioning system for cooling a vehicle cabin, comprising:

• an adsorption heat pump driven by an engine waste heat recovery system, the heat pump comprising a first adsorbing/desorbing heat exchanger, a second evaporating/condensing heat exchanger, a radiator, and an air-conditioning core, the first and second heat exchangers arranged inside a vacuum enclosure and thermally coupled via vapor,
• wherein the air-conditioning core contains a plurality of double tube plates, each double tube plate comprising an inner tube arranged within an outer tube, with phase changing materials surrounding the inner tube within the outer tube, wherein the inner tube of each plate selectively fluidly communicates with one or more tubes of a tube-and-plate assembly of the second heat exchanger depending on a mode of the system;
• and
• a controller comprising a processor and a storage medium programmed with computer readable data representing instructions executable by the processor to, during a desorbing/condensing mode in which the inner tubes of the air-conditioning core are fluidly decoupled from the system, actuate a blower to cool a vehicle passenger cabin by blowing air through the air-conditioning core into the cabin as the phase changing materials in the air-conditioning core melt.