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The shortage of fossil fuel, greenhouse gases emission, air pollution and global warming have attracted more and more researchers' attention on the adsorption technology, which utilizes low temperature thermal heat of solar thermal energy and waste heat. Moreover, the usage of natural materials as refrigerant such as water and methanol adds to its advantage. However, the low coefficient of performance and specific cooling power limits its further application. This paper proposes a novel combined adsorption system, which can provide the functions of air conditioning/refrigeration/heat pump heating and ammonia/organic expanding power generation. In addition, the consolidated advanced adsorbent is used in this system, the effect of which is investigated. The author also analyzed the most suitable organic for organic Rankine cycle in this system. The results reveal that the organic of N-Butane has the highest potential exergy and the most appropriate work pressure. The cooling exergy efficiency in the working modes of air conditioning, refrigeration and heat pump heating are about 0.18, 0.13 and 0.24, respectively. The simulation results indicate that, compared to the system with only cooling effect, the total exergy efficiency of the combined system can be improved from 0.15 to 0.31, because of the additional expanding power generation effect.