Surface Treatment Could Improve Refrigeration Efficiency

  • Magazine Article
  • TBMG-35131
Published September 01, 2019 by Tech Briefs Media Group in United States
Language:
  • English

Unlike water, liquid refrigerants and other fluids that have a low surface tension spread quickly into a sheet when they come into contact with a surface. For many industrial processes, it would be better if the fluids formed droplets that could roll or fall off the surface and carry heat away with them.