1. Introduction, purpose and importance of refrigeration and heat pump technology, cryogenics. Phase change materials.
2. Methods of achieving low temperatures, the basic theory of refrigeration cycles. Comparative cycles.
3. Steam flow single stage, with the internal heat exchange. Supercritical cycle.
4. Binary mixtures, evaporation, freezing. Heat transfer fluids.
5. Refrigerants - calculation bases. Characteristics of the main types of refrigerants.
6. Two and multistage refrigeration cycles, cascade conection.
7. Gas cycles.
8. Cycles for the liquefaction of gases.
9. Absorption refrigeration cycles - ammonia - water.
10. Absorption refrigeration cycles - water - lithium bromide. Adsorption cycles.
11. The basic elements of refrigeration circuits - compressors, heat exchangers, control, isolation.
12. Heat pumps - types.
13. Connection to heating systems. Proposal for bivalent point and operating mode.
14. Evaluation of the benefits heat pumps in terms of energy, economic and environmental.
2. Methods of achieving low temperatures, the basic theory of refrigeration cycles. Comparative cycles.
3. Steam flow single stage, with the internal heat exchange. Supercritical cycle.
4. Binary mixtures, evaporation, freezing. Heat transfer fluids.
5. Refrigerants - calculation bases. Characteristics of the main types of refrigerants.
6. Two and multistage refrigeration cycles, cascade conection.
7. Gas cycles.
8. Cycles for the liquefaction of gases.
9. Absorption refrigeration cycles - ammonia - water.
10. Absorption refrigeration cycles - water - lithium bromide. Adsorption cycles.
11. The basic elements of refrigeration circuits - compressors, heat exchangers, control, isolation.
12. Heat pumps - types.
13. Connection to heating systems. Proposal for bivalent point and operating mode.
14. Evaluation of the benefits heat pumps in terms of energy, economic and environmental.