Magnetocaloric and Caloric Materials for Solid-State Cooling
A special issue of Magnetochemistry (ISSN 2312-7481). This special issue belongs to the section "Magnetic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 13658
Special Issue Editors
Interests: caloric cooling; vapor compression plants; refrigerant fluids; convective boiling; nanofluids; earth–air heat exchangers; renewable energy systems
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Dear Colleagues,
The demand for energy is growing continuously, and more than 20% of energy consumption is due to refrigeration and air conditioning. Most refrigeration and air-conditioning systems are based on vapor compression technology. In spite of the enormous efforts over the last two decades to reduce energy consumption, we are still far from having acceptable threshold levels. Among the many reasons for such data, in some sectors, the persistent link to the technologies of yesterday are due to the absence of adequate substitutes. The scientific community has devoted huge efforts toward developing possible alternative cooling techniques that are ecological, demonstrate good performance, and are characterized by low energy consumption. Among these alternatives is caloric cooling. Caloric refrigeration embraces four other main cooling techniques linked to a group of materials that show magnetocaloric, electrocaloric, elastocaloric, and barocaloric effects—phenomena where variation in the temperature of caloric material is registered when an applied external field adiabatically changes its intensity. This Special Issue is focused on caloric materials and welcomes papers on the analysis—either experimental or numerical—of their properties and on their testing in energy systems for cooling.
Prof. Adriana GrecoDr. Claudia Masselli
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Keywords
- solid-state
- caloric
- magnetocaloric
- electrocaloric
- elastocaloric
- barocaloric
- effect
- cooling
- materials
- energy
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