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Facilities: Cooling Systems

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Refrigeration systems for process application and air conditioning convert work into a flow of heat from a process source or from a refrigerated space to an environmental sink. The main types can be described as vapor compression, absorption, and Brayton cycles.

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Petrecca, G. (2014). Facilities: Cooling Systems. In: Energy Conversion and Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06560-1_12

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