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The possibility of freezing soil to a depth of up to 100 m by three types of seasonally operating cooling devices, i.e., vapor-liquid, liquid with forced convection, and liquid with natural convection ones, is shown.
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Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel’stvo, No. 12, December 2004, pp. 2 – 9.
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Buchko, N.A., Maksimov, I.A., Pavich, M.P. et al. Analysis of results of tests of subsurface seasonally operating cooling devices on the test ground of the Vilyui HPP-3. Power Technol Eng 39, 11–18 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10749-005-0017-x
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