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(Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center. College of Engineering. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2007-09)As microchannel heat exchangers have become more sophisticated in their design, more exact understanding of the flow inside them is necessary. A decrease in diameter enhances the heat transfer (which takes place at the ...
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(Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center. College of Engineering. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2007-08)A method is described for fabricating controlled micro-scale, topographical features on aluminum surfaces for the purpose of exploiting those features to affect the surface wettability. Using a photolithographic approach, ...
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(Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center. College of Engineering. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2007-05)Data now becoming available from prototype low energy residences confirm that peak heating and cooling loads can be reduced by factors of 3 to 5, using currently available technologies. This paper explores the range ...
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(Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center. College of Engineering. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2007-01)Carbon dioxide (CO2) has been seriously considered as an alternate refrigerant for HCFC and HFC fluids, due to the increasing interest of environmentally safe refrigerants in air-conditioning and refrigeration systems. ...
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(Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center. College of Engineering. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2006-12)This report details the tests performed on R22 box and R744 breadboard versions of the US Army Environmental Control Unit (ECU) with a nominal cooling capacity of 9,000 BTU/hr (0.75 Tons or 2.64 kW). An R22 ECU box ...
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