AN INTRODUCTION TO MAGNETIC REFRIGERATION
At present a great amount of research work is performed to develop new magneto caloric materials, which are the refrigerants of magnetic refrigerators. This leads to a continuous development of more performant magnetic refrigerants with higher entropy differences S, higher adiabatic temperature differences Tad and lower hysteresis effects. Also an increased activity to design better thermo-magnetic refrigerators is occuring and numerous promising patents on machines with magneto caloric porous beds have been deposited. In a new ⅡR working party on magnetic refrigeration the different activity groups get into close relation, leading to welcome interactions between material scientists, physicists working on magnetism and specialists on fluid dynamics and thermodynamic machine design. All these increasing activities lead to a very high potential of magnetic refrigerators for a market penetration, which most probably at first will occur in some niche markets. After that for some main sales domains of refrigeration - e.g. as for usual commercial refrigerators-an entrance to the market also seems feasible. Other markets are in air conditioning, heat pump applications, process technics, automobile industry, medical domains, etc.
Peter W.EGOLF Andrej KITANOVSKI Didier VUARNOZ Marc DIEBOLD Christophe BESSON
University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland Institute of Thermal Sciences,CH 1401 Yverdon University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland Institute of Energy and Electrical Systems,CH
国际会议
The 22nd International Congress of Refrigeration(第22届国际制冷大会)
北京
英文
2007-08-21（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）