Talk:Absorption refrigerator

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[edit] Heat sources

Many heat sources can be used, not just solar. I propose changing, once more, "i.e. solar" (that is, so73473966406 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="wpSave"

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The most common modern domestic absorption fridge is fuelled by gas in Australia.Polypipe Wrangler (talk) 11:42, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

The most common modern domestic absorption fridge is fuelled by gas in Australia.Polypipe Wrangler (talk) 11:46, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Clarity

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The description of the principles, processes, and apparatuses used in absorption refrigerators is very convoluted. There is also insufficient description of the physical laws involved with no equations and only a rudimentary schematic for an absorption refrigerator that is next to impossible to decipher. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Conceptuweasel (talk • contribs) 19:25, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

These sentences, copied here, are in need of simplification.

Instead, it is based on evaporation, carrying heat, in the form of fast-moving (hot) molecules from one material to another material that preferentially absorbs hot molecules. The most familiar example is human sweating. The water from sweat evaporates and is "absorbed" into cool dry air, carrying away heat in fast-moving water molecules. However, absorptive refrigerators differ in that they regenerate their coolants in a closed cycle, while people drink water recycled outside their bodies.

Could be restated thus: Instead, it is based on evaporation. An example of evaporation is thus: when water evaporates, it changes from liquid to gas/vapor. Water molecules in vapor move faster than water molecules in liquid; that is, they have more kinetic energy. Heat is another word for kinetic energy. These newly vaporized water molecules got their increase of kinetic energy by absorbing heat from their environment. This is how human skin is cooled from the evaporation of sweat: heat is siphoned off the body as sweat turns from liquid to gas.

Note: as the writer above noted, there's much clarity needed elsewhere. Here, at least, could be a way of improving one little section. Having never edited a page, I do not have the temerity to do so now!Francis Smith (talk) 05:50, 18 November 2007 (UTC)Francis Smith

[edit] Other applications

This system is also used with power plants, and other heat generating industry, the cooled liquid produced can then be used in various applications, for example it is pumped to residents to replace Air condition. (Larkuur (talk) 16:06, 29 December 2007 (UTC)).