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Record W2134386154 · doi:10.1093/ijlct/2.3.225

Carbon dioxide as a natural refrigerant

2007· article· en· W2134386154 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicRefrigeration and Air Conditioning Technologies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRefrigerantRefrigerationCarbon dioxideVapor-compression refrigerationEnvironmental scienceIdeal (ethics)Waste managementProcess engineeringEngineeringChemistryMechanical engineeringPolitical scienceOrganic chemistryGas compressorLaw

Abstract

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In the beginnings of mechanical refrigeration, at the end of the nineteenth century, carbon dioxide was one of the fi rst refrigerants to be used in compression-type refrigerating machines, later gaining widespread application mainly onboard refrigerated ships, but common in other sectors of refrigeration as well. It was only immediately after World War II that CO2 was rapidly eclipsed as a refrigerant, due to the advent of the synthesised halogenated working fluids, addressed as safe and ideal refrigerants at that time. Because of the stratospheric Ozone depletion environmental issue, CFC and HCFC working fl uids are now in the process of being phased out of use under the Montreal Protocol. The Global Warming environmental issue casts concern over the use of the new HFC fluids as substitute refrigerants, because of their high GWP values, which make them subject to regulations under the Kyoto Protocol. In this mixed situation, CO2 is being revisited as a fully environmentally friendly and safe refrigerant. An intense research activity on its prospective applications is underway in many research establishments in Europe, Japan and North America, and important results have already been reached in exploiting the peculiar characteristics of this high-pressure fl uid operated with a transcritical cycle. In some applications CO2 systems have already been commercialised; this applies to heat pump water heaters, as a brine in indirect systems and in the low temperature stage of cascade systems. The paper critically analyses the prospects for the future return of CO2 as a working fl uid, or sometimes as a brine with change of phase, in important application areas. These include air conditioning and heat pump systems in the residential and commercial sectors, commercial and transport refrigeration and mobile air conditioning.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.246
Threshold uncertainty score0.725

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.236
Teacher spread0.231 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it