This post is going to be a bit long because it will be largely media, since I’ve done no writing for the last several months and have been busy in my shop. I will let the pictures and videos do…
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Refrigerator Cabinet Design – Part 2
In Part 1 I complained a good bit about the design of conventional refrigerators. Since I was a little kid, I thought that surely their must be a better way make a refrigerator more convenient and at the same time consume…
Tagged with: brine, compressor, condenser, evaporator, killcap, PCM, phase change material, refrigeration, refrigerator
Posted in Refrigeration, Refrigerator
Posted in Refrigeration, Refrigerator
Excerpts from “Elementary Mechanical Refrigeration” by Fred E Matthews, 1912
The following are several pages taken from the above mentioned book. A similar explanation is more or less copied in “Power’s Principles of Refrigeration” of which I have a 1921 copy. Take special note of the beautiful illustration below. Clicking…
Tagged with: back pressure, condenser, evaporator, heat engine, heat pump, refrigeration, steam engine, temperature pump, thermal potential
Posted in Old Refrigeration Texts, Refrigeration
Posted in Old Refrigeration Texts, Refrigeration
Some Old Refrigerating Machines
I recently purchased these two books from abebooks.com. They are the second and fourth editions, 1926 and 1933 respectively. I don’t remember what they cost, but I would have easily payed double. They are filled with illustrations and descriptions of…
Tagged with: evaporator, GE, heat pump, high side float, ice box, low side float, monitor top, refrigeration, refrigerator
Posted in Old Refrigeration Texts, Refrigeration
Posted in Old Refrigeration Texts, Refrigeration
musings on entropy 