The greenhouse-gas output from the cooling industry is expected to rise to almost a quarter of the total greenhouse-gas production, if nothing changes. Magnetocaloric heat pumps could change this: They use solid, nontoxic materials and have no greenhouse-gas effect, and recycling on an almost element-specific basis is extremely simple.
Ekkes Brück, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, was involved with the BASF in the development of a prototype of a magnetocaloric wine-cooler refrigerant [1]. In an interview he discusses the significance of these energy-efficient heat pumps, their competitiveness with other technologies, and their environmental advantages.
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- Magnetocaloric Refrigeration: Reinventing the Fridge?,
Ekkes Brück, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
February 13, 2015.
[1] Prototype of Magnetocaloric Wine Cooler, Veronika Belusa, ChemistryViews.org 13 January 2015.
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