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  2. Gas exchange - Wikipedia

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    Gas exchange is the physical process by which gases move passively by diffusion across a surface. For example, this surface might be the air/water interface of a water body, the surface of a gas bubble in a liquid, a gas-permeable membrane, or a biological membrane that forms the boundary between an organism and its extracellular environment.

  3. Ground-coupled heat exchanger - Wikipedia

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    An open system combined with energy recovery ventilation can be nearly as efficient (80-95%) as a closed loop, and ensures that entering fresh air is filtered and tempered. Combination system: This can be constructed with dampers that allow either closed or open operation, depending on fresh air ventilation requirements.

  4. Thermodynamic system - Wikipedia

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    The system always contains the same amount of matter, but (sensible) heat and (boundary) work can be exchanged across the boundary of the system. Whether a system can exchange heat, work, or both is dependent on the property of its boundary. Adiabatic boundary – not allowing any heat exchange: A thermally isolated system

  5. Critical point (thermodynamics) - Wikipedia

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    The dashed lines represent parts of isotherms which are forbidden since the gradient would be positive, giving the gas in this region a negative compressibility. Above the critical point there exists a state of matter that is continuously connected with (can be transformed without phase transition into) both the liquid and the gaseous state.

  6. Thermal equilibrium - Wikipedia

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    A system prepared as a mixture of petrol vapour and air can be ignited by a spark and produce carbon dioxide and water; if this happens in an isolated system, it will increase the temperature of the system, and during the increase, the system is not in thermal equilibrium; but eventually, the system will settle to a uniform temperature.

  7. Glossary of HVAC terms - Wikipedia

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    A component of an HVAC system that adds heat to air or an intermediate fluid by burning fuel (natural gas, oil, propane, butane, or other flammable substances) in a heat exchanger. gas furnace heat exchanger A gas furnace heat exchanger is responsible for the transfer of heat from inside the furnace into the air outside the furnace.

  8. Respiratory system - Wikipedia

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    The respiratory system (also respiratory apparatus, ventilatory system) is a biological system consisting of specific organs and structures used for gas exchange in animals and plants. The anatomy and physiology that make this happen varies greatly, depending on the size of the organism, the environment in which it lives and its evolutionary ...

  9. Thermal expansion valve - Wikipedia

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    A thermal expansion valve is a key element to a heat pump; this is the cycle that makes air conditioning, or air cooling, possible.A basic refrigeration cycle consists of four major elements: a compressor, a condenser, a metering device and an evaporator.