Environmental motivation to switch to thermoacoustic refrigeration

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 119-126

  Zink, Florian ^a   Vipperman, Jeffrey S ^a   Schaefer, Laura A ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Mobile refrigeration; Thermoacoustics; Total equivalent warming potential

Indexed keywords

19TH CENTURY; ADVERSE EFFECT; GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL; HARMFUL SUBSTANCES; IN-VEHICLE; INDUSTRIAL SETTINGS; MIXING RATIOS; NICHE TECHNOLOGY; OZONE DEPLETION POTENTIAL; REFRIGERATION TECHNOLOGY; TARGET APPLICATION; TEMPERATURE LEVEL; THERMOACOUSTIC REFRIGERATION; THERMOACOUSTIC REFRIGERATORS; THERMOACOUSTICS; TOTAL EQUIVALENT WARMING IMPACTS; TOTAL EQUIVALENT WARMING POTENTIAL; VAPOR COMPRESSION; WARMING POTENTIAL;

CAPILLARY TUBES; CHLORINE; COOLING; FLUORINE; GLOBAL WARMING; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; REFRIGERANTS;

REFRIGERATION;

EID: 74249121907     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2009.07.008     Document Type: Article

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