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Also known as refrigeration system

thumb|Commercial refrigeration

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
  • History
  • Earliest forms of cooling
  • Ice harvesting
  • Refrigeration research
  • Commercial use
  • Home and consumer use
  • Impact on settlement patterns in the United States of America
  • Refrigerated rail cars
  • Expansion west and into rural areas
  • Rise of the galactic city
  • Impact on agriculture and food production
  • Demographics
  • Meat packing and trade
  • Electricity in rural areas
  • Farm use
  • Effects on lifestyle and diet
  • Impact on nutrition
  • Current applications of refrigeration
  • Methods of refrigeration
  • Non-cyclic refrigeration
  • Cyclic refrigeration
  • Vapor-compression cycle
  • Sorption cycle
  • Absorption cycle
  • Adsorption cycle
  • Gas cycle
  • Thermoelectric refrigeration
  • Magnetic refrigeration
  • Other methods
  • Elastocaloric refrigeration
  • Fridge Gate
  • Passive systems
  • Capacity ratings
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

thumb|Commercial refrigeration

Refrigeration is any of various types of cooling of a space, substance, or system to lower or maintain its temperature below the ambient one (while the removed heat is rejected at a higher temperature). Refrigeration is an artificial, or human-made, cooling method.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “refrigeration” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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