Refrigeration plays a prominent role in our everyday lives, and cryogenics plays a major role in medical science, space technology and the cooling of low-temperature electronics. This volume contains chapters on basic refrigeration systems, non-compression refrigeration and cooling, and topics related to global environmental issues, alternative refrigerants, optimum refrigerant selection, cost-quality optimization of refrigerants, advanced thermodynamics of reverse-cycle machines, applications in medicine, cryogenics, heat pipes, gas-solid absorption refrigeration, multisalt resorption heat pumps, cryocoolers, thermoacoustic refrigeration, cryogenic heat transfer and enhancement and other topics covering theory, design, and applications, such as pulse tube refrigeration, which is the most efficient of all cryocoolers and can be used in space missions.

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to the Institute.- Thermodynamics and Design Principles of Refrigeration Systems.- Non-Compression Refrigeration: Problems and Prospects.- Advanced Thermodynamics of Reverse Cycle Machine.- Optimum Selection of Refrigerants Under Environmental Constraints.- Optimum Refigerant Selection for Low Temperature Engineering.- Cost-to-Quality Optimization of Refrigeration.- The Effect of Inlet Subcooling on Two-Phase Flow Dynamic Instabilities In-Tube Boiling Systems.- Transitional Processes and Crisis Phenomena in Boiling of Cryogenic Liquids.- Numerical Simulation of Heat and Mass Transfer in Heat Pump Working on Supercritical R-744.- Hydrodynamics and Heat Transfer in Boiling and Evaporation in Cryogenic Falling Films and Applications.- Modern Problems of Cryogenic Heat Transfer and its Enhancement (Generalization of Experimental Results, Practical Recommendations and Different Applications).- Heat Transfer in a Liquid Nitrogen at High Centrifugal Acceleration Fields.- Overcooling Phenomenon by Symmetrical or Asymmetrical Collison of Thermal Waves in Thin Film.- New Methods of Gas-Dynamic Temperature Stratification.- Recent Advances in Cryobiology Using Calorimetry.- Low Temperature and Cryogenic Applications in Medicine and Surgery.- Preservation of Biological Materials Principles and Applications.- Thermoacoustic Refrigeration: Low-Temperature Applications and Optimization.- Heat Pipe Technology for Refrigeration and Cooling.- A Solar Gas/Electrical Solid Sorption Refrigerator.- Multisalt-Carbon Portable Resorption Heat Pump.- Heat Pipe Applications in Sorption Refrigerators.- Pulse Tube Cryocoolers.- Plate-Fin Heat Exchangers for Cryogenic Applications with Special Emphasis on Two-Phase Flow.- Refrigeration of Low-Temperature Superconducting Coils for Nuclear Fusion.-Modelling of Refrigeration Poultry Meat Processes.- Thermophysical Properties of Foods at Frozen State.