The evolution of the household refrigerator is not a well known story. There seems to be few people interested in the subject. Perhaps it is not as romantic as the development of the automobile. Nonetheless, a concerted effort was put…
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1930s Household Refrigerators
Tagged with: antique, capillary tube, expansion valve, float valve, refrigerant, refrigeration, refrigerator, thermostatic
Posted in Old Refrigeration Texts, Refrigeration, Refrigerator
Posted in Old Refrigeration Texts, Refrigeration, Refrigerator
Discourse On Dehumidifiers
I’d like to talk about dehumidifiers; what they are, how they work, design failures and improvements I’d make. The dehumidifiers I write of are a specific kind, but probably the most common. They are the small white plastic towers people…
Tagged with: capillary tube, compressor, dehumidifier, dessicant, dew point, flash gas, humidity, pressure drop, propane, psychrometrics, R-12, R-134a, R-22, refrigerant, refrigerator, subcool, vapor pressure
Posted in Dehumidifiers, Refrigeration
Posted in Dehumidifiers, Refrigeration
musings on entropy 