Abstract
Cryogenic refrigerators and liquefiers were operated with pure fluids for much of the last century. The importance of using a mixture of refrigerants appears to have been first proposed in 1936 by Podbielniak [69], but was implemented in practice in the 1960s in large-scale natural gas liquefaction after the pioneering work of Kleemenko [50]. The use of mixtures in refrigeration applications was pioneered in the former Soviet Union [4, 17]. In this chapter, the methods for overcoming the low exergy efficiency of refrigeration and liquefaction systems operating with pure fluids using refrigerant mixtures are discussed.
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Venkatarathnam, G. (2008). Need for refrigerant mixtures. In: Timmerhaus, K., Rizzuto, C. (eds) Cryogenic Mixed Refrigerant Processes. International Cryogenics Monograph Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78514-1_3
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