Mechanical Cooling
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Mechanical cooling refers to any of several methods that use energy to actively remove heat, or thermal energy, from one location and dissipate it elsewhere. Mechanical cooling is governed by the principles of thermodynamics, gas pressure laws and the energy intensive properties of rapidly evaporating refrigerants.
All mechanical cooling systems rely on an electric motor to power a pump or compressor, which drives the cooling medium throughout the system.
Any method that uses energy to actively remove heat from one area and dissipate it elsewhere.
The branch of science that studies the relations between heat and other forms of energy.
A set of physical laws that describe how gasses and liquids behave as their properties of volume, density and temperature change.
A material used in DX cooling systems that boils below room temperature, and is used to transfer thermal energy from one point to another.
