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2. Refrigerator - Wikipedia

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   Commercial refrigerator and freezer units were in use for almost 40 years prior to the common home models. The freezer-over-refrigerator style had been the basic style since the 1940s, until modern, side-by-side refrigerators broke the trend. A vapor compression cycle is used in most household refrigerators, refrigerator–freezers and freezers.

3. Icebox - Wikipedia

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   Icebox used in cafés of Paris in the late 1800s. An icebox (also called a cold closet) is a compact non-mechanical refrigerator which was a common early-twentieth-century kitchen appliance before the development of safely powered refrigeration devices.

4. Refrigeration - Wikipedia

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   This effect is commonly used in camping and portable coolers and for cooling electronic components [78] and small instruments. Peltier coolers are often used where a traditional vapor-compression cycle refrigerator would be impractical or take up too much space, and in cooled image sensors as an easy, compact and lightweight, if inefficient ...

5. Coefficient of performance - Wikipedia

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   The coefficient of performance or COP (sometimes CP or CoP) of a heat pump, refrigerator or air conditioning system is a ratio of useful heating or cooling provided to work (energy) required. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Higher COPs equate to higher efficiency, lower energy (power) consumption and thus lower operating costs.

6. Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning - Wikipedia

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   Most modern hot water boiler heating systems have a circulator, which is a pump, to move hot water through the distribution system (as opposed to older gravity-fed systems). The heat can be transferred to the surrounding air using radiators, hot water coils (hydro-air), or other heat exchangers. The radiators may be mounted on walls or ...

7. Thermal management (electronics) - Wikipedia

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   Thermoelectric junctions are typically around 10% as efficient as the ideal Carnot cycle refrigerator, compared with 40% achieved by conventional compression cycle systems. Synthetic jet air cooling A synthetic jet is produced by a continual flow of vortices that are formed by alternating brief ejection and suction of air across an opening such ...