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The world below zero: a history of refrigeration in the United Kingdom.

Author(s) : COOPER A. J.

Type of monograph: Book

Summary

The book presents the use of cooling back to 1100 BC and highlights development and applications up to the present day. Extract from the table of contents: icehouses; ice making; from vacuum machine to compression machine; the vapour compression machine and the birth of refrigerants; ammonia; development of the ammonia compressor; cold air machine; cold air and snow problems; CO2 machine; the need for testing standards; methyl chloride and CFCs; the birth of the electric motor; absorption process; domestic refrigerator; commercial refrigeration; cold stores; refrigeration in the brewing industry; refrigerated transport; refrigeration and fish, milk, ice cream; heat exchangers; screw and scroll compressors; liquid ring & vane compressors; controls; thermoelectric refrigeration.

Details

  • Original title: The world below zero: a history of refrigeration in the United Kingdom.
  • Record ID : 1998-1407
  • Languages: English
  • Publication: ACR Today - United kingdom/United kingdom
  • Publication date: 1997
  • ISBN: 0953074005
  • Source: Source: 220 p. (14.7 x 21 ); fig.; phot.; index; GBP 34.50.
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

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