The cycle has now been "reversed" in an efficient machine for cooling things to very low temperatures In 1816 Robert Stirling invented an engine that operated by heating and cooling air in a ...

The presence of flash-gas in the liquid lines reduces the efficiency of the refrigeration cycle. It can also lead several expansion systems to work improperly, and increase superheating at the ...

Offering a rare compilation of thermodynamic data on the most-used industrial refrigerants, this book presents exhaustive coverage of the fundamentals, design, installation, and operation of ...

It will be demonstrated for a two-stage vapor compression cycle, which is presented in Figs. 18.1 and 18.2, where IC/FT stands for the intercooler flash tank. Figure 18.1: Schematic of a two-stage ...