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1. Introduction to cooling technologies -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 Cooling technologies -- 1.2 Brief history of cooling technologies -- 1.2.1 Refrigeration -- 1.2.2 Air conditioning -- 1.3 Thermodynamic background -- 1.3.1 Thermodynamic properties -- 1.3.2 Energy equation, heat, and work -- 1.4 Psychrometrics -- 1.4.1 Properties of air-water vapor mixtures -- 1.4.2 Adiabatic saturation and wet bulb temperatures -- 1.4.3 Weather data -- 1.4.4 Psychrometric chart -- 1.5 Thermal comfort --

2. Vapor compression cooling cycles -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Carnot refrigeration cycle -- 2.3 Vapor compression cycle operation -- 2.4 Vapor compression cycle analysis -- 2.5 Efficiency measures: COP, EER, and SEER -- 2.6 Refrigerants -- 2.7 Effect of evaporator and condenser temperature -- 2.8 Part load performance -- 2.9 Multistage vapor compression systems --

3. Evaporative, absorption, and gas cooling cycles -- 3.1 Evaporative cooling -- 3.1.1 Introduction -- 3.1.2 Direct evaporative cooling -- 3.1.3 Indirect evaporative cooling -- 3.2 Absorption refrigeration cycles -- 3.2.1 Introduction -- 3.2.2 Absorption cycle operation -- 3.2.3 Absorption cycle analysis -- 3.3 Gas refrigeration cycle -- 3.3.1 Introduction -- 3.3.2 Thermodynamic analysis --

4. Cooling equipment -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Heat exchangers -- 4.2.1 Heat transfer in heat exchangers -- 4.2.2 Heat exchanger analysis -- 4.3 Condensers -- 4.3.1 Introduction -- 4.3.2 Condensation heat transfer -- 4.3.3 Evaporative condensers -- 4.4 Evaporators -- 4.4.1 Introduction -- 4.4.2 Boiling heat transfer -- 4.5 Cooling coils -- 4.6 Cooling towers -- 4.7 Compressors -- 4.7.1 Introduction -- 4.7.2 Reciprocating compressors -- 4.7.3 Centrifugal compressors -- 4.7.4 Compressor lubrication -- 4.8 Expansion valves --

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This text provides background information, description, and analysis of four major cooling system technologies--vapor compression cooling, evaporative cooling, absorption cooling, and gas cooling. Vapor compression systems are currently the primary technology used in most standard domestic, commercial, and industrial cooling applications, as they have both performance and economic advantages over the other competing cooling systems. However, there are many other applications in which evaporative cooling, absorption cooling, or gas cooling technologies are a preferred choice. The main focus of the text is on the application of the thermal sciences to refrigeration and air conditioning systems. The goals are to familiarize the reader with cooling technology nomenclature, and provide insight into how refrigeration and air conditioning systems can be modeled and analyzed. Cooling systems are inherently complex, as the second law of thermodynamics does not allow thermal energy to be transferred directly from a lower temperature to a higher temperature, so the heat transfer is done indirectly through a thermodynamic cycle. Emphasis is placed on constructing idealized thermodynamic cycles to represent actual physical situations in cooling systems. The text also contains numerous practical examples to show how one can calculate the performance of cooling system components. By becoming familiar with the analyses presented in the examples, one can gain a feel for the representative values of the various thermal and mechanical parameters that characterize cooling systems.

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