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"Distribution Center magazine is the exclusive and official publication of Heating, Air-conditioning and Refrigeration Distributors International."

Heating and ventilation industry --- Refrigerator industry

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Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery. --- Réfrigération et appareils frigorifiques. --- Cooling. --- Réfrigération. --- Refrigerator industry. --- Industrie du froid.

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Refrigerator industry --- Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery --- Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery. --- Law and legislation --- Law and legislation --- United States.

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Refrigeration, air conditioning, and heat pumps (RACHP) have an important impact on the final energy uses of many sectors of modern society, such as residential, commercial, industrial, transport, and automotive. Moreover, RACHP also have an important environmental impact due to the working fluids that deplete the stratospheric ozone layer, which are being phased out according to the Montreal Protocol (1989). Last, but not least, high global working potential (GWP), working fluids (directly), and energy consumption (indirectly) are responsible for a non-negligible quota of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the atmosphere, thus impacting climate change.

History of engineering & technology --- demand side management (DSM) --- energy efficiency --- energy storage --- demand response (DR) --- flexibility --- R744 transcritical booster --- subcritical booster --- cascade --- parallel compression --- ejector --- commercial/retail refrigeration --- HVAC --- pressure based control --- damper control --- static pressure reset --- CO2 reset --- demand-based control --- energy saving --- human well-being --- IAQ --- Atomic Air --- air conditioning --- chiller --- CO2 --- commercial refrigeration --- heat pump --- heat recovery --- industrial refrigeration --- R744 --- transcritical vapor-compression system --- two-phase ejector --- domestic refrigerator --- consumer habits --- energy consumption --- good practices --- surveys --- ground source heat pump --- tropical climate --- horizontal heat exchanger --- district cooling --- liquid to compressed natural gas --- thermal energy storage --- LNG --- ground source heat pumps --- low GWP refrigerants --- energy analysis --- R410A --- R32 --- R454B

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This book results from a Special Issue related to the latest progress in the thermodynamics of machines systems and processes since the premonitory work of Carnot. Carnot invented his famous cycle and generalized the efficiency concept for thermo-mechanical engines. Since that time, research progressed from the equilibrium approach to the irreversible situation that represents the general case. This book illustrates the present state-of-the-art advances after one or two centuries of consideration regarding applications and fundamental aspects. The research is moving fast in the direction of economic and environmental aspects. This will probably continue during the coming years. This book mainly highlights the recent focus on the maximum power of engines, as well as the corresponding first law efficiency upper bounds.

thermodynamics --- optimization --- entropy analysis --- Carnot engine --- modelling with time durations --- steady-state modelling --- transient conditions --- converter irreversibility --- sequential optimization --- Finite physical Dimensions Optimal Thermodynamics --- global efficiency --- energy efficiency --- heat engine --- heat pump --- utilization --- Carnot efficiency --- comparison --- thermal system --- cycle analysis --- second law of thermodynamics --- Clausius Statement --- theorem of the equivalence of transformations --- linear irreversible thermodynamics --- maximum power output --- maximum ecological Function --- maximum efficient power function --- enzymatic reaction model --- ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) --- plate heat exchanger --- finite-time thermodynamics --- heat transfer entropy --- entropy production --- new efficiency limits --- two-stage LNG compressor --- energy losses --- exergy destruction --- exergy efficiency --- Stirling cycle --- refrigerator --- heat exchanger --- second law --- n/a