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Non-Compression Refrigeration: Problems and Prospects

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Modern tendencies of energy saving and environmentally friendly technologies direct scientists and engineers into exploration of any reliable opportunity in application of renewable or partly renewable energy sources for power generation. Recent experience shows that because of low availability of renewable energy, this approach could be realized in the most effective manner for refrigeration and heat pumping techniques. Thermodynamically renewable energy-based cycles do not contain a mechanical compression process. Hence, both mechanical compression and non-mechanical compression refrigeration cycles accomplish the removal of heat through the evaporation of a refrigerant at a low pressure and the rejection of heat through the condensation of the refrigerant at a higher pressure, the method of creation of the pressure difference and circulation of the refrigerant is the primary distinction. The vapour compression cycle employs a mechanical compressor to create the pressure differences necessary to circulate the refrigerant. In the non-mechanical compression system forces of non-mechanical nature drive the heat transfer process.

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  1. Department of Engineering Thermodynamics — State Academy of Refrigeration, 1/3 Dvoryanskaya Street, 65026, Odessa, Ukraine

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  1. University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA

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    H. F. Smirnov

  3. State University of Estado, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    M. R. Avelino

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Kosoy, B.V. (2003). Non-Compression Refrigeration: Problems and Prospects. In: Kakaç, S., Smirnov, H.F., Avelino, M.R. (eds) Low Temperature and Cryogenic Refrigeration. NATO Science Series, vol 99. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0099-4_3

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