Can you use steam for cooling?
Can you use steam for cooling?
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A heat pump used for cooling uses electricity to run the compressor that compresses the gas. But is there any technical solution where you instead of electricity use steam as a source of energy for running a heat pump and cooling a medium?
I'm very thankfull for any answers!
I'm very thankfull for any answers!
RE: Can you use steam for cooling?
You can use a steam turbine to directly run the compressor.
You can use steam to drive an absorption refrigeration cooling system.
RE: Can you use steam for cooling?
dcasto lists out a good summary of what one can do with steam. There is one more, well-used and reliable cooling method he left out:
Using low pressure (waste) steam as the motive force to draw a vacuum and induce cooling of a closed water-cooling system. I have produced 50 oF cooling water with remarkable consistancy and reliability (and also saved a lot of waste steam in he process) with this method. The part I love best about this method is that it has no moving mechanical parts. If designed and constructed well, it has minimal maintenance.
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