Iceless Refrigeration

Thermoacoustic Refrigeration

From creating comfortable home environments to manufacturing fast and efficient electronic devices, air conditioning and refrigeration remain expensive, yet essential, services for both homes and industries. However, in an age of impending energy and environmental crises, current cooling technologies continue to generate greenhouse gases with highenergy costs. Thermoacoustic refrigeration is an...

Vaccine refrigeration

This commentary reviews recent changes in Centers for Disease Control (CDC) vaccine storage guidelines that were developed in response to an investigative report by the Office of the Inspector General. The use of temperature data loggers with probes residing in glycol vials is advised along with storing vaccines in pharmaceutical refrigerators. These refrigerators provide good thermal distribut...

Sorption Refrigeration Development

The Jet Propulsion Lthoratory (JPL) has been involved in cryogenic refrigeration development for the National Aeronautics and Space AdminisUation (NASA) since 1979. Witi the help of NASA, Southern California Gas Company, Ford Automotive, and Aerojet General, we have spun off Ma technology for cmnmerciai air conditioning since 1990. In all, JPL has fabricated and successfully tested the followin...

eterostrueture Integrated Thermionic Refrigeration

Thermionic emission in heterostructures is investigated for integrated cooling of high power electronic and optoelectronic devices. This evaporative cooling is achieved by selective emission of hot electrons over a barrier layer from the cathode to the anode. As the energy distribution of emitted electrons is almost exclusively on one side of Fermi energy, upon the current flow, strong carrier-...

Clusters for Magnetic Refrigeration**