Essential reading for engineering and technology students, and engineers and technologists working in the area of refrigeration, the comprehensive approach provides an invaluable tool to understanding the fundamental principles and the practical applications of refrigeration technology. Academia and industry will find this book very useful.
About the Author, Ibrahim Dincer
Ibrahim Dincer is Professor of Mechanical Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at UOIT. His research interests include energy and energy conversion management, heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics, drying, refrigeration and thermal energy storage. He has received numerous awards for excellence in research, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley International Journal of Energy Research as well as the Elsevier journal Exergy β An International Journal. He has authored or co-authored 5 books β Exergy, 2006, Elsevier, Porous Media in Modern Technologies, Springer, 2004, Refrigeration Systems and Applications, Wiley, 2003, Thermal Energy Storage Systems and Applications, Wiley 2002, and Heat Transfer in Food Cooling Applications, Taylor & Francis, 2003.
Mehmet Kanoglu is an Associate Professor within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Gaziantep in Turkey. He has authored over 30 international journal and conference papers, and his research interests include thermodynamics in the power and energy industries.
"This second edition of a reference for students, researchers, and engineers now includes study problems and questions in each chapter, making it appropriate as a textbook. It also contains new energy and exergy analyses." (Book News, September 2010)