Status of not-in-kind refrigeration technologies for household space conditioning, water heating and food refrigeration

International Journal of Sustainable Built Environment

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 85-101

  Bansal, Pradeep ^a   Vineyard, Edward ^a   Abdelaziz, Omar ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Magnetic refrigerator; Stirling; Thermoacoustics; Thermoelectricity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84999791769     PISSN: 22126090     EISSN: 22126104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsbe.2012.07.003     Document Type: Review

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