Refrigeration Technology introduces the fundamentals of refrigeration
technology, the development of the technology in the past 20 years and
the current status. The book is divided into 4 parts containing 13
chapters. The first part includes the introduction of the category,
applications, history and development of refrigeration and the academic
organizations and journals in this field.
The second part of the book covers the fundamental aspects of
refrigeration technologies, various methods of decreasing temperature,
thermodynamic analyses of refrigeration cycles, the gas refrigeration
systems and mechanically or thermally driven vapour compression
refrigeration systems. The third part discusses the working substances
of refrigeration including the requirements for refrigeration systems
and their properties. This part also discusses some environmental issues
relating to the refrigeration systems such as the mechanism and degree
of ozone layer depletion and greenhouse effect. This part ends with a
discussion of properties of moist air for air-conditioning. The fourth
part focuses on the components and equipment such as compressors,
condensers and evaporators in refrigeration systems.
