Improving efficiency of absorption refrigerator (ammonia+hydrogen) Apologies if this is not the right forum for this question, I checked the Physics side and there's no questions on this, whereas there's at least one other question here about absorption refrigeration.

I have a very standard camping fridge which runs on the absorption cycle, I'm making a leap of informed guesswork and assuming it's ammonia + hydrogen based.

I'm investigating ways the efficiency or performance of the system could be improved without major surgery but I'm neither a chemist nor physicist (nor surgeon).

Here's the system as explained by the manufacturer:



And here's the actual unit, minus some lagging round the boiler:



So you can see it's pretty basic, they haven't changed the design in decades.

My main train of thought, based on the bleeding obvious, is that either more heat could be added at the boiler end, or more cooling (basically, a fan) could be added to the condenser.

However, I don't know enough about how the coolant behaves to know if this would be of any benefit - adding heat could just ruin everything, cooling beyond a certain point may make no difference, etc. etc.

Additionally, I don't know if things could be done at other points in the cycle (cooling or heating other areas such as the absorber being the obvious easy wins) to improve matters.

I would also like to add that this is mostly driven by my curiosity for tinkering with things, I realise that the real-world answer to a better fridge is to buy a compressor type one - but they're expensive (seriously, compressor camping fridges are more than a full-size household fridge+freezer) and I won't learn anything that way ;)

EDIT: Thanks for the responses, ultimately the thing was never going to be viable running on 12v so we bought a compressor-type which is about 10x more efficient (in electricity) by comparison.
I've come here for basically the same reason, however I have some suggestions that I've done and I believe they have helped.
And my fridge is basically the same as your, just a bigger model, same manufacturer.
Firstly I should suggest messing with the process (heat etc) would not be a good idea as I would assume the manufacturer would have optimized the design years ago, and I have heard over heating the boiler can cause catastrophic and irrepairable damage .
My fridge has a freezer box (shoebox size, quite useless) within the fridge and a heat sink next to it for the fridge part. I took the door off the freezer and cut the base out of the box, that made a huge difference, infact with it set on high on a cool day of 20c or less items in the bottom of the fridge will freeze.
But as the camping car is used mostly in summer and it's hot that doesn't happen then.
If you need a freezer use the engel.
The fridge is mounted permanently into the camping car with a door on the outside to access the back of the fridge, it has vents top and bottom, on the inside of the bottom door vents I've installed 2 mini computer 12v power fans, they are very week but do set up a positive upward circulation of air over the absorber/condenser. As these use so little electricity they can be connected into your auxiliary battery without fear of draining it.
I think the added circulation helps on hot days.
And finally if you can't avoid parking it with the rear of the fridge on the sun exposed wall try a shade cloth over the area.
Hope that helps.