Book description
Refrigeration Systems and Applications, 2nd edition
offers a comprehensive treatise that addresses real-life technical and
operational problems, enabling the reader to gain an understanding of
the fundamental principles and the practical applications of
refrigeration technology. New and unique analysis techniques (including
exergy as a potential tool), models, correlations, procedures and
applications are covered, and recent developments in the field are
included -
many of which are taken from the author's own research activities in
this area. The book also includes some discussion of global warming
issues and its potential solutions.
- Enables the reader to gain an understanding of the fundamental
principles and the practical applications of refrigeration
technologies.
- Discusses crucial industrial technical and operational problems,
as well as new performance improvement techniques and tools for
better design and analysis.
- Includes fundamental aspects of thermodynamics, fluid flow, and
heat transfer; refrigerants; refrigeration cycles and systems;
advanced refrigeration cycles and systems, including some novel
applications; heat pumps; heat pipes; and many more.
- Provides easy to follow explanations, numerous new chapter-end
problems and worked-out examples as learning aids for students and
instructors.
Refrigeration is extensively used in a variety of thermal engineering
applications ranging from the cooling of electronic devices to food
cooling processes. Its wide-ranging implications and applications mean
that this industry plays a key role in national and international
economies, and it continues to be an area of active research and
development. Refrigeration Systems and Applications, 2nd
edition forms a useful reference source for graduate and
postgraduate students and researchers in academia and as well as
practicing engineers working in this important field who are
interested in refrigeration systems and applications and the methods
and analysis tools for their analysis, design and performance improvement.
Ibrahim Dincer
is Professor of Mechanical Engineering within the Faculty of
Engineering and Applied Science at UOIT. His research interests include
energy and energy conversion management, heat and mass transfer,
thermodynamics, drying, refrigeration and thermal energy storage. He has
received numerous awards for excellence in research, and is the
Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley International Journal of Energy Research as
well as the Elsevier journal Exergy - An International Journal. He has
authored or co-authored 5 books - Exergy
, 2006, Elsevier, Porous Media in Modern Technologies
, Springer, 2004, Refrigeration Systems and Applications
, Wiley, 2003, Thermal Energy Storage Systems and Applications
, Wiley 2002, and Heat Transfer in Food Cooling Applications,
Taylor & Francis, 2003.
Mehmet Kanoglu is an Associate Professor within the Department
of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Gaziantep in Turkey. He
has authored over 30 international journal and conference papers, and
his research interests include thermodynamics in the power and energy
industries.
