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 ...

This compression creates a high temperature, high pressure gas - an essential step in the overarching refrigeration cycle. The refrigeration cycle or heat pump cycle is the model describing the ...

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 ...

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 ...