Currently heat pump manufacturers are mainly focusing on cost reductions and sustainable refrigerants. In the project “LC150” (Low Charge 150 g), the Fraun-hofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE ...

Scientists at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute ISE and a consortium of heat pump manufacturers have achieved a new efficiency record in their development of a low-refrigerant propane refrigeration ...

While it might be fair to say that there is no such thing as a typical supermarket refrigeration system, there are commonalities between all systems that employ multiplex compressor racks. It is ...

Multi-circuit evaporators utilizing a thermostatic expansion valve (TXV) will have a refrigerant distributor connected to the outlet of the TXV to ensure the refrigerant leaving the TXV is fed equally ...

A recently filed patent (Publication Number: US20230296299A1) describes a refrigeration cycle apparatus that includes a unique filter member designed to capture acid contained in the refrigerant. The ...

Andrew Gigiel of the Food Refrigeration and Process Engineering Research Centre has been looking at ways to make domestic refrigerators more energy-efficient. About one billion refrigerators and ...

The novel heat pump system relies on a thermal sensor based on an adsorbent-coated sensor layout developed by Vaillant in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ...

Fujitsu General. has filed a patent for an air conditioner with a refrigerant circuit connecting indoor and outdoor units. The system includes a memory storing an estimation model to determine ...

One of the great inventions of our time — in terms of its social impact and influence on the health care and food preservation industries — refrigeration equipment is everywhere, from hotels, ...