Low Temperature and Cryogenic Refrigeration

✍ Scribed by Dr. S. Kakaç (auth.), S. Kakaç, H. F. Smirnov, M. R. Avelino (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 488
• Series: NATO Science Series 99
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Refrigeration plays a prominent role in our everyday lives, and cryogenics plays a major role in medical science, space technology and the cooling of low-temperature electronics. This volume contains chapters on basic refrigeration systems, non-compression refrigeration and cooling, and topics related to global environmental issues, alternative refrigerants, optimum refrigerant selection, cost-quality optimization of refrigerants, advanced thermodynamics of reverse-cycle machines, applications in medicine, cryogenics, heat pipes, gas-solid absorption refrigeration, multisalt resorption heat pumps, cryocoolers, thermoacoustic refrigeration, cryogenic heat transfer and enhancement and other topics covering theory, design, and applications, such as pulse tube refrigeration, which is the most efficient of all cryocoolers and can be used in space missions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction to the Institute....Pages 1-3
Thermodynamics and Design Principles of Refrigeration Systems....Pages 5-22
Non-Compression Refrigeration: Problems and Prospects....Pages 23-37
Advanced Thermodynamics of Reverse Cycle Machine....Pages 39-82
Optimum Selection of Refrigerants Under Environmental Constraints....Pages 83-100
Optimum Refrigerant Selection for Low Temperature Engineering....Pages 101-118
Cost-to-Quality Optimization of Refrigeration....Pages 119-130
The Effect of Inlet Subcooling on Two-Phase Flow Dynamic Instabilities In-Tube Boiling Systems....Pages 131-144
Transitional Processes and Crisis Phenomena in Boiling of Cryogenic Liquids....Pages 145-164
Numerical Simulation of Heat and Mass Transfer in Heat Pump Working on Supercritical R-744....Pages 165-180
Hydrodynamics and Heat Transfer in Boiling and Evaporation in Cryogenic Falling Films and Applications....Pages 181-200
Modern Problems of Cryogenic Heat Transfer and its Enhancement (Generalization of Experimental Results, Practical Recommendations and Different Applications)....Pages 201-220
Heat Transfer in a Liquid Nitrogen at High Centrifugal Acceleration Fields....Pages 221-240
Overcooling Phenomenon by Symmetrical or Asymmetrical Collision of Thermal Waves in Thin Film....Pages 241-248
New Methods of Gas-Dynamic Temperature Stratification....Pages 249-263
Recent Advances in Cryobiology Using Calorimetry....Pages 265-294
Low Temperature and Cryogenic Applications in Medicine and Surgery....Pages 295-308
Preservation of Biological Materials -Principles and Applications-....Pages 309-326
Thermoacoustic Refrigeration: Low-Temperature Applications and Optimization....Pages 327-348
Heat Pipe Technology for Refrigeration and Cooling....Pages 349-372
A Solar—Gas/Electrical Solid Sorption Refrigerator....Pages 373-386
Multisalt-Carbon Portable Resorption Heat Pump....Pages 387-400
Heat Pipe Applications in Sorption Refrigerators....Pages 401-414
Pulse Tube Cryocoolers....Pages 415-434
Plate-Fin Heat Exchangers for Cryogenic Applications with Special Emphasis on Two-Phase Flow....Pages 435-450
Refrigeration of Low-Temperature Superconducting Coils for Nuclear Fusion....Pages 451-465
Modelling of Refrigeration Poultry Meat Processes....Pages 467-472
Thermophysical Properties of Foods at Frozen State....Pages 473-480
Back Matter....Pages 481-485

✦ Subjects

Mechanics;Thermodynamics;Physical Chemistry;Condensed Matter Physics;Automotive Engineering