Wear behaviour of the piston/gudgeon pin in a hermetic compressor with replacement CFC refrigerants

Wear

Volumn 219, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 8-15

  Safari, S ^a   Hadfield, M ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lubricant; Piston; Refrigerant; Wear

Indexed keywords

CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS; COMPRESSORS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PISTONS; REFRIGERANTS; SYNTHETIC LUBRICANTS;

GUDGEON PIN; HERMETIC COMPRESSORS;

WEAR OF MATERIALS;

LUBRICANT; PISTON; REFRIGERANT; WEAR;

EID: 0032483155     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1648(98)00197-5     Document Type: Article

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