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RECORD NUMBER: 10 OF 83Main Title | Alternative Technologies for Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Applications. | |||||||||||
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Author | Gauger, D. C. ; Shapiro, H. N. ; Pate, M. B. ; | |||||||||||
CORP Author | Iowa State Univ., Ames. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.;Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC. Air and Energy Engineering Research Lab. | |||||||||||
Publisher | May 95 | |||||||||||
Year Published | 1995 | |||||||||||
Report Number | EPA-R-818714-01-1; EPA/600/R-95/066; | |||||||||||
Stock Number | PB95-224531 | |||||||||||
Additional Subjects | Refrigerants ; Substitutes ; Thermodynamic properties ; Greenhouse effect ; Air pollution abatement ; Brayton cycle ; Cholorhydrocarbons ; Heat transfer ; Air conditioning ; Thermoelectric refrigeration ; Magnetic materials ; CFC(Chlorofluorocarbons) ; Chlorofluorocarbons | |||||||||||
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Collation | 355p | |||||||||||
Abstract | The report gives results of an assessment of refrigeration technologies that are alternatives to vapor compression refrigeration for use in five application categories: domestic air conditioning, commercial air conditioning, mobile air conditioning, domestic refrigeration, and commercial refrigeration. A fundamental criterion for the selection of the alternative refrigeration technologies to be assessed was that they be environmentally safe. The study was conducted in three phases: a survey of U.S. patents, system modeling, and a technology assessment. Each refrigeration application was defined by a set of thermal source and sink temperatures. The U.S. patent survey was conducted from 1918 to the present. A method was developed for classifying refrigeration technologies found during the survey. |