Publications

Rotary Vapor Compression Cycle Final Report

Kariya, Harumichi A.; Koplow, Jeffrey P.; Staats, Wayne L.

Few technologies are as prevalent in modern everyday life as space heating and cooling. Space heating and cooling dictates the level of comfort experienced inside a building, and can even have effects on productivity. At an extreme scale, space heating and cooling enables places such as subzero Alaska and scorching hot Arizona to be more widely inhabited. Aside from moderating comfort, space cooling facilitates the proliferation of other technologies: temperature and humidity control is important for semiconductor and pharmaceutical laboratories, as well as for the optimal operation of high performance computing centers/data centers.