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Microfluidic refrigeration platforms: strengths and limitations.

Number: pap. ID: 149

Author(s) : KOSOY B. V.

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This research attempts to sketch a road map for the next few decades in micro refrigeration development. Accomplishment of micro refrigeration systems design is strongly associated with a progress in such technologies as autonomous power supply, integrated micro transportation, and enhanced heat transfer techniques. A microfluidic refrigeration platform approach is suggested as a combinable set of refrigerant handling steps together with a suitable micro fabrication technology. It is enable the flexible and affordable implementation of the well known refrigeration principles in a potential market-relevant framework. Particular considerations are performed at reviewing prospects and constraints of recent developments in microfluidics, actuation and micro heat transfer areas with respect to their applications in development of microfluidic refrigeration platform concept. Basing on the presentation of some prominent technologies, it was concluded that beneficial microfluidic refrigeration platforms might be selected by identifying imperative requirements of a certain application, e.g. portability, low power consumption, high coefficients of performance, etc.

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  • Original title: Microfluidic refrigeration platforms: strengths and limitations.
  • Record ID : 30001565
  • Languages: English
  • Source: Proceedings of the 23rd IIR International Congress of Refrigeration: Prague, Czech Republic, August 21-26, 2011. Overarching theme: Refrigeration for Sustainable Development.
  • Publication date: 2011/08/21

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