Resources
- General
- john gorrie
- magnetic refrigeration
- GE Magnetic Refrigeration: How it Works and GE Builds Magnetic Refrigeration Technology. GEreports. YouTube (7 February 2014). General Eelecric researchers describe how they built their breakthrough magnetic refrigeration system. The technology, which is projected to be 20 percent more efficient than current refrigeration systems, could be inside your fridge by the end of the decade. It is using water based fluid to transfer heat, not chemical refrigerants.
- Magnetic refrigeration: How does that work?! Applied Science. YouTube (29 September 2014). Ben Krasnow describes how some materials can change temperature when a magnetic field is applied to them.
- Magnetic Refrigeration. Materials Science Products. Sigma-Aldrich Company. Source of materials exhibiting large conventional and giant magnetocaloric effects, suitable for magnetic refrigeration applications.
- refrigerants
- chlorofluorocarbons
- sulfur dioxide
- Bolton Hall HazMat Incident. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. On Friday morning, July 14, 2000, while defrosting an old refrigerator on the 6th floor of Bolton Hall, an employee accidentally punctured the freezer coil and the unit began leaking sulfur dioxide (SO2) refrigerant gas. Two employees were exposed to the irritating gas and they called for assistance. Sulfur dioxide (as well as ammonia and methylene chloride) was used as a refrigerant gas of choice in the 1940s and early 1950s.
- thermoacoustics
- vapor-compression refrigerator
