thermoacoustic refrigerator

thermoacoustic refrigerator

[‚thər·mō·ə‚kü·stik ri′frij·ə‚rād·ər]
(engineering)
A device that uses acoustic power to pump heat from a region of low temperature to a region of ambient temperature.
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The travelling wave thermoacoustic refrigerator (TWTR), designed by a research team at Tokai University, consists of three etched stainless steel mesh regenerators installed within the prime mover loop and one in the refrigerator loop.
Caption: The double-loop travelling wave thermoacoustic refrigerator (TWTR).
Novel Refrigerator Turns Waste Heat Into Sound Waves to Provide Cooling
The team's progress was detailed in a paper, "Performance of a Small Low-Lift Regenerator-based Thermoacoustic Refrigerator," at the First Pan-American/Iberian Acoustics Meeting in Cancun, Mexico on Dec.
United Technologies Corporation. (Technology Spotlight)
In this project, a Thermoacoustic refrigerator was manufactured from everyday materials including plexiglass, PVC piping and a loudspeaker.
Fabrication, test, and analysis of a thermoacoustic refrigerator. (South Carolina Junior Academy Of Sciences Abstracts)
The team's progress is detailed in a paper, "Performance of a Small Low-Lift Regenerator-based Thermoacoustic Refrigerator," released in early December at the First Pan-American/Iberian Acoustics Meeting in Cancun, Mexico.
Penn State announces freezer breakthrough
A thermoacoustic refrigerator, Garrett said, is a resonator cavity that
The Penn State group has developed several thermoacoustic refrigerators over
Sound waves at work
Using this system, Garrett's group has fashioned a cube-shaped unit that will become the prototype for a household thermoacoustic refrigerator, he reported this week in San Francisco at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
A refrigerator with the coolest sound
Thermoacoustic refrigerators have been or are now being developed for a variety of purposes, such as cooling medical supplies, tropical fruit cargo, and seismic instruments in the earth's crust, as well as for liquefying natural gas.
Sounds that cool spark hot ideas

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