Modern Refrigerating Machinery, its Constructions Methods of Working, and Industrial Applications

Abstract

IT is to be regretted that no treatise exists on this subject which contains an exhaustive investigation of the thermodynamical problems involved, and of the physical properties of the various gases used as media, with special reference to their practical application to refrigerating machinery. In works on thermodynamics, the matter is treated in general terms. The physical constants are found in scattered tables, and even with such a well-known gas as carbon dioxide they have not been completely determined. It has become more and more necessary for the engineer or manufacturer to be familiar with the scientific researches and theoretical considerations which lie at the base of his industry, and Germany has come to be looked upon as the leader in fundamental work of this sort, but the “Neuere Kühlmaschinen” of Prof. Lorenz makes no pretence to be of this comprehensive character. While refrigerating machinery is sufficiently simple, the principles on which it is based are not so easy of comprehension to the working engineers and business men who use it industrially. As a handbook for men of this class and as a résumé of the subject, this manual has long been known in Germany and on the Continent. Various editions have been published as a volume of the “Technische Handbibliothek,” and the present translation under the title of “Modern Refrigerating Machinery” is from the edition of igol.

Modern Refrigerating Machinery, its Constructions Methods of Working, and Industrial Applications.

By Prof. H. Lorenz. American Practice in Refrigeration. By H. M. Haven and F. W. Dean. Pp. x + 396. (New York: Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1905.) Price 17s. net.