Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a new, compact cooling device that can reduce temperatures by up to 16°F (9°C) in the surrounding area and as much as 25°F (14°C) at the heat source within 30 seconds, showing promise in transforming wearable cooling technologies, portable devices, and potentially even car … Continue reading Electrocaloric tech to help cool cars?
German company Magnotherm has made a significant advancement in the development of refrigerant-free cooling systems, demonstrating that magnetocaloric materials can be protected by applying a copper coating and corrosion inhibitor to the alloys used in technology that is claimed to be 40 per cent more energy efficient than vapour compression. After three months of continuous … Continue reading Magnetic cooling attracts attention
Researchers are developing new, environmentally friendly refrigerants and finding more ways to recycle or break down harmful ones as the need to mitigate the potential of ecological harm from rapidly growing global demand for air-conditioning and refrigeration technologies becomes increasingly urgent. HKUST: Engineers Set New Benchmarks in Eco-Friendly Cooling Technology Engineers at the Hong Kong … Continue reading Science to the rescue: Environmentally friendly refrigerants and safe ways to dispose of the harmful ones
A pioneering research study led by Shin-ichi Ohkoshi from the University of Tokyo, in collaboration with Tsukuba and Osaka Universities, Aisin Corporation, and Molsis Inc., has resulted in the creation of an inorganic solid refrigerant claimed to deliver the world’s highest cooling performance. Solid refrigerants are being explored as possible next-generation cooling technologies due to … Continue reading More solid refrigerant developments
A new approach to refrigeration known as ionocaloric cooling takes advantage of how heat is stored when a material changes from a solid to a liquid and could spell the end of refrigerants as we know them. When a material melts it absorbs heat from its surroundings, when it solidifies it releases heat. In the … Continue reading Ionocaloric cooling: The end of refrigerants?
A UK-based company that has been developing a revolutionary type of refrigeration has secured a £1.3 million ($AU2.4m) investment, with the purpose of bringing to market a new technology which does away with refrigerant gas. Barocal Ltd, a spin-out from Cambridge University’s Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, is developing a cooling and heating method … Continue reading Disruptive solid-state refrigerant tech firm secures £1.3m investment
