{"id":194963,"date":"2024-08-22T15:25:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T20:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/engineers-develop-eco-friendly-cooling-device-with-record-breaking-efficiency"},"modified":"2024-08-22T15:25:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T20:25:18","slug":"engineers-develop-eco-friendly-cooling-device-with-record-breaking-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/engineers-develop-eco-friendly-cooling-device-with-record-breaking-efficiency","title":{"rendered":"Engineers develop eco-friendly cooling device with record-breaking efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-develop-eco-friendly-cooling-device-with-record-breaking-efficiency3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have developed an eco-friendly refrigeration device with record-breaking cooling performance, setting the stage for transforming industries reliant on cooling and reducing global energy use.<\/p>\n<p>With a boost in efficiency of over 48%, the new elastocaloric <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/cooling\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cooling<\/a> technology opens a promising avenue for accelerating the commercialization of this disruptive technology and addressing the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/environmental+challenges\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">environmental challenges<\/a> associated with traditional cooling systems.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional vapor compression refrigeration technology relies on refrigerants of high global warming potential. Solid-state elastocaloric refrigeration based on latent heat in the cyclic phase transition of shape memory alloys (SMAs) provides an environmentally friendly alternative, with its characteristics of greenhouse gas-free, 100% recyclable and energy-efficient SMA refrigerants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have developed an eco-friendly refrigeration device with record-breaking cooling performance, setting the stage for transforming industries reliant on cooling and reducing global energy use. With a boost in efficiency of over 48%, the new elastocaloric cooling technology opens a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}