STELLAR — Unlocking High-Capacity, Refrigerant-Free Cooling with Superconducting Magnets
The shift toward refrigerant-free cooling is underway, and magnetic cooling has established itself as the leading option, with real-world systems providing direct value. This presentation explores STELLAR: harnessing superconducting magnets to unlock higher capacities and new application areas.
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Heat pumpRefrigeration
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The cooling industry stands at an inflection point. Synthetic refrigerants carry well-documented environmental burden, while natural alternatives bring their own practical and regulatory challenges. Together, these pressures are accelerating the search for fundamentally different approaches to cooling. Among these, magnetic cooling has emerged as one of the most promising: a refrigerant-free technology using the magnetocaloric effect, a thermodynamic response of specialist magnetic materials to changing magnetic fields.
Over the past decade, magnetocaloric technology has progressed from laboratory curiosity to demonstrable cooling systems, with proof-of-concep ...
The cooling industry stands at an inflection point. Synthetic refrigerants carry well-documented environmental burden, while natural alternatives bring their own practical and regulatory challenges. Together, these pressures are accelerating the search for fundamentally different approaches to cooling. Among these, magnetic cooling has emerged as one of the most promising: a refrigerant-free technology using the magnetocaloric effect, a thermodynamic response of specialist magnetic materials to changing magnetic fields.
Over the past decade, magnetocaloric technology has progressed from laboratory curiosity to demonstrable cooling systems, with proof-of-concep ...
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