“The International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference covers a wide range of topics of interest to researchers and engineers involved in the development of technology improvements and/or assessments of air conditioning and refrigeration equipment. In 2010, proceedings for this conference included 156 papers from authors all over the world. For 2012, we are soliciting papers on topics ranging from fundamental to applied, including heat transfer and fluid flow fundamentals, alternative refrigerants and working fluids, modeling of components and systems, heat exchanger enhancements and characterizations, controls, diagnostics, domestic, commercial and industrial refrigeration, heat pumps, transport refrigeration and air conditioning.”
Proceedings from 2022
ASHRAE Guideline 38 Methodology Material Compatibility Testing of R-473A, Rusul Al-rubaay, Christopher J. Seeton, Robert E. Low, and Ira Saxena
Experimental Investigation of R1336mzz(E) in a High-temperature Heat Pump, Cordin Arpagaus, Sidharth Paranjape, Leon Brendel, Luke D. Simoni, Konstantinos Kontomaris, and Stefan S. Bertsch
Energy Efficient Heating and Air Conditioning Concept for City cars and Microcars, Joerg Aurich and Rico Baumgart
Double-Lift Ammonia/Water Compression-Resorption Heat Pump for Simultaneous Industrial Process Heating and Refrigeration Applications, Dereje Sendeku Ayou and Alberto Coronas
Condensation Heat Transfer Coefficient Measurements and Flow Pattern Visualizations of R515B and R450A Inside a 3.4 mm Diameter Channel, Marco Azzolin, Arianna Berto, Stefano Bortolin, Nicolò Mattiuzzo, and Davide Del Col
Carnot -Equivalent Air Cycle Heat Pump Leveraging Isentropic and Isothermal Compression and Expansion Principles – A Theoretical Analysis, Daniel Bacellar, Selorm Tsikata, and Reinhard Radermacher
Comparison of Fresh and Used Refrigerator Compressor Oil Properties with GC-MS, GC-SIMDIS and ICP-MS Analysis, Gizem Balkız, Husnu Kerpicci, Nuray Gulmez, Emre Oruc, and Aysegul Mericboyu
Modeling of an Ultra-Low Temperature Refrigeration System for Independent Vaccines and Medical Supplies Storage, Abd Alrhman Mohammad Bani Issa, Elias N. Pergantis, John K. Brehm, Eckhard A. Groll, and Davide Ziviani
Potential of Power and Heat Prosumers for Climate-Neutral Energy Systems, Benedikt Gregor Bederna and Riley Bradley Barta
New Thermodynamic Mixture Models for HFO-containing blends, Ian Bell
Three-Dimensional Modeling of the Solidification Front in Ice Cubes, Guilherme M. Berno, Fernando Knabben, and Christian Hermes
Optical Measurements Of Liquid Film Thickness During Condensation In A Small Diameter Tube, Arianna Berto, Pascal Lavieille, Marco Azzolin, Stefano Bortolin, Marc Miscevic, and Davide Del Col
Comparison Study of a Traditional Ducted Heat Pump and a Multi Split Heat Pump, Manoj Bhandari and Nelson Fumo
Effects of Air-Side Flow Maldistribution on the Heat Transfer Performance of Polymeric Air-Coupled Heat Exchangers, Daniel B. Boman, Bataung Mohapi, and Jason S. Wexler
Performance Modeling Of A Thermoelectric Heat Pump Clothes Dryer With Very High Air Flow, Philip Boudreaux, Viral Patel, Chris Hall, Kyle Gluesenkamp, Steve Karman, Dean Ellis, and Anthony Gehl
Thermodynamic Assessment of Air-Cycles for Ultra-Low-Temperature Refrigerated Container Applications, John Kevin Brehm, Elias N. Pergantis, Abd Alrhman M. Bani Issa, Eckhard A. Groll, and Davide Ziviani
Impact of High-Efficiency and Variable-Speed Motors on the Performance of a Residential Split-System Air Conditioning System, John Kevin Brehm, Florian R Raditsch, Rick Hepperla, Davide Ziviani, and Eckhard A. Groll
Application of Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) Optimization through GAMS for Component Selection in Vapor Compression Refrigeration, Leon Philipp Martin Brendel, James E. Braun, and Eckhard A. Groll
Gravity Dependence Quantifiers for Vapor Compression Cycles Subjected to Inclination Testing and Parabolic Flights, Leon Philipp Martin Brendel, Stephen L. Caskey, James E. Braun, and Eckhard A. Groll
Booster Ejector Enhanced Vapor Compression Cycle Performance For Industrial Refrigerating Facilities, Olexiy Buyadgie, Oleksii Drakhnia, and Dmytro Buyadgie
Latent Thermal Energy Storage for Thermal Management of Refrigerated Trucks, Michele Calati, Giulia Righetti, Claudio Zilio, Kamel Hooman, and Simone Mancin
Experimental Study Of Falling Film Evaporation Of R1234ze(E) And R134a In An Innovative Shell-And-Tube Heat Exchanger, Giuseppe Censi and Andrea Padovan
The Role of Internal Heat Exchanger in an R744 Vapor Compression System in the Heat Pump Mode Under Various Conditions, Vladimir Cernicin, Wenying Zhang, and Pega Hrnjak
Rapid Energy Optimization Of Vapor Compression Systems Using Probabilistic Machine Learning And Extremum Seeking Control, Ankush Chakrabarty, Daniel J. Burns, Martin Guay, and Christopher R. Laughman
The Role of Heat-to-Power Technologies in Building Decarbonization, Praveen Cheekatamarla, Kyle Gluesenkamp, Timothy LaClair, and Ahmad Abuheieba
R1234ze(E) Specialized Refrigeration Lubricant in HFO Blend Application, Yu-Kai Chen, Yu-Hsiang Wang, and Jung-Tsung Hung
Using Machine Learning for Feature Selection in Automated Fault Detection and Diagnosis of Split System Air Conditioners, Yuxuan Chen, Amir Ebrahimifakhar, and David P. Yuill
Energy Analysis of Biomass Integrated Air Gasification Regenerative Gas Turbine Power Plants, Reu Chol Jacob, Siddharth Pannir, and Momin Elhadi Abdalla
Modeling of Syngas Integrated Regenerative Gas Turbine Power Plants, Reu Chol Jacob, Siddharth Pannir, and Momin Elhadi Abdalla
Energetic Assessment of Syngas Fuel for Regenerative Gas Turbine Power Plants, Reu Chol Jacob, Siddhrtha Pannir, and Momin Elhadi Abdalla
Low-Carbon District Heating: Performance Modeling of Hybrid Solar, Heat Pump and Thermal Storage Systems for District Thermal Energy in the United States, Jordan Tracy Cox, Gustavo Campos, Paul Armatis, Scott Belding, Travis Lowder, Lasse Kristensen, Andreas Zourellis, Frederic Bless, Cordin Arpagaus, and Samuel F. Baldwin
Effect of the Freezing Rate on the Quality of Frozen Strawberries, Diogo L. Da Silva, Alexsandro Silveira, Adriano Ronzoni, and Christian Hermes
Experimental Investigation of a Micro-CHP Unit Driven by Natural Gas for Residential Buildings, Camila Davila, Nicolas Paulus, and Vincent Lemort
Toward Optimal Secondary Furnace Heat Exchanger: Acquisition of Heat Transfer Correlations, Simon Bear Devlin, Hyunjin Park, James Cook, Tien Nguyen, Aaron Board, Christian K Bach, and Aaron S Alexander
Review of Triply Periodic Minimal Surface (TPMS) based Heat Exchanger Designs, Lalith Kannah Dharmalingam, Vikrant Aute, and Jiazhen Ling
Effect of a Thermostat Environment Emulator on Load-Based Test Results for a Residential Heat Pump, Parveen Dhillon, Dohyeon Kim, W. Travis Horton, and James E. Braun
Lessons Learned from Retrofitting a Psychrometric Facility for Testing of HVAC&R Equipment with Flammable Refrigerants, Parveen Dhillon, Orkan Kurtulus, Changkuan Liang, Vatsal Shah, W. Travis Horton, and James E. Braun
Repeatability and Reproducibility Assessment of Residential Heat Pump Performance Evaluation Methodologies based on CSA EXP07 and AHRI 210/240, Parveen Dhillon, Xudong Wang, W. Travis Horton, and James E. Braun
Validation of a Load-Based Testing Methodology for Residential Heat Pump Performance Characterization in Heating Mode, Parveen Dhillon, Drew Welch, Brian Butler, W. Travis Horton, and James E. Braun
Droplet Behavior and Condensation Heat Transfer Performance on Silica Nanospring Coated Surfaces, Andrew R. Dillman, Adam Vuth, Giancarlo Corti, and Andrew Sommers
Adaptive Reinforcement Learning PI Controllers for Vapor Compression Cycle Control, Tech Logg Ding, Stuart Norris, and Alison Subiantoro
Effect of Lubricating Oil on the Refrigerant Heat Transfer Performance during Spray Evaporation on Tube Bundles, Jerin Robins Ebanesar and Lorenzo Cremaschi
Field Measurement-Based Validation of Fault Diagnostics for Commercial Building HVAC Systems, Amir Ebrahimifakhar, Yuxuan Chen, David P. Yuill, and Eliot Crowe
Experimentally Validated Correlations for Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop for Single-phase Flow in Frame-and-Plate Heat Exchanger, Abdel Rahman Farraj and Pega Hrnjak
Local Heat Transfer Coefficient of R245fa Flow Boiling in Plate Heat Exchanger with Simultaneous Flow Visualization, Abdel Rahman Farraj and Pega Hrnjak
Additive Manufacturing For Thermal Management Applications: From Experimental Results To Numerical Modeling, Giacomo Favero, Massimiliano Bonesso, Pietro Rebesan, Razvan Dima, Adriano Pepato, and Simone Mancin
Enhancing Membrane-Based Air Dehumidification Through Non-Isothermal Operation, Andrew Joseph Fix, James Braun, and David M. Warsinger
Load-based Testing of Heating and Cooling Equipment Informed by Detailed Energy Models, Aleksandr Fridlyand, Alejandro Baez Guada, Navin Kumar, Abbas Ahsan, Tim Kingston, and Paul Glanville
Using Local Entropy Generation Rate in Air-Side Heat Exchanger Design, Max Friestad and Anthony M. Jacobi
Performance Evaluation Of R471A In Refrigerated Display Cabinet And Walk-In-Cooler, Kaimi Gao, Nilesh Purohit, Elizabet Vera Becerra, Ronald Vogl, Ankit Sethi, and Ryan Hulse
Modeling and Simulation of Air-Source CO2 Heat Pump Water Heater, Zhiming Gao, Keith Rice, and Kashif Nawaz
R468C as a Low-GWP Replacement of R410A in Fin-and-Tube Evaporators, Matin Ghadiri, Christian K. Bach, and Craig R. Bradshaw
Development of an Emulator-Based Assessment Method for Representative Evaluation of the Dynamic Performance of Air Conditioners, Niccolo Giannetti, Hifni Ariyadi, Yoichi Miyaoka, Jongsoo Jeong, and Kiyoshi Saito
Development of a Standardized Refrigerant Evaluation Tool for Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Equipment Using a General-Purpose Energy-Analysis Simulator, Niccolo Giannetti, Kiyoshi Saito, Koji Yamashita, and Shigeharu Taira
Carnot Analysis of Heat Pump Drying: Ideal Efficiency and Dry Time, Kyle Gluesenkamp and Viral Patel
How to Measure and Evaluate Refrigerant Cycles – in a Representative, Reproducible Manner? An Experimental Case Study for Water-to-Water Heat Pumps, Stephan Gobel, Christian Vering, Dirk Müller, and André Wachau
Development Of Refrigeration Oils With High Electric Resistivity For New Energy Vehicles, Satoshi Goto, Tatsuki Nakajima, and Yasushi Onumata
Influence of the High-outdoor Temperature on an Air conditioner Operation: Second-Law Analysis for Low-GWP Refrigerant Fluids, Leonardo H. Grous Franco, Izabela Henriques, and Guilherme Ribeiro
Fractionation, Release Testing And Flammability Evaluation Of Novel Refrigerants Comprising R-744 And Fluorocarbons, David Charles Grundy, Vanessa Webster, Chris Seeton, and Bob Low
Developing Computationally Efficient Artificial Neural Network Model of R744 Microchannel Evaporator from Experimental Data for Component Selection Analysis of an Ejector System, Muhammad Haider and Stefan Elbel
Effect of Fractionation on Ejector and System Performance in R1234yf/R32 Refrigeration System, Muhammad Haider and Stefan Elbel
Effects of Orientation and Valve Opening Speed on Oil Circulation Rate Measurements Using an Evacuated Type Sampling Cylinder, Syed Angkan Haider, Xin Wang, and Stefan Elbel
Oil Circulation Rate Measurements with Flow-through and Evacuated Type Sampling Cylinders, Syed Angkan Haider, Xin Wang, and Stefan Elbel
CFD Modeling Of Very High Air Flow In A Residential Clothes Dryer To Investigate Pressure Loss And Flow Through The Air Flow Path, Christopher Lawrence Hall, Steve Karman, Philip Boudreaux, Viral Patel, Dean Ellis, Kyle Gluesenkamp, and Anthony Gehl
Battery Cooling Module Optimization Method: Battery Lifetime Prediction Using Temperature, Se Hyeon Ham, Dong Soo Jang, and Yongchan Kim
Estimation Of Reversible Entropic Heat Of Lithium Battery Based On Inverse Heat Transfer Analysis and Least-squares Optimization, Ukmin Han and Hoseong Lee
Study On Quality Measurement Using Multiple Small Holes, Shusuke Hara, Mitsuhiro Fukuta, Masaaki Motozawa, Yusuke Hagiwara, Atsushi Inaba, and Haruyuki Nishijima
CSA EXP07: Ongoing Progress, Lessons Learned, And Future Work In Load-based Testing of Residential Heat Pumps, Bruce Harley, Mark Alatorre, Christopher Dymond, and Gary Hamer
Refrigerant Replacement from HFC to HC in a Medical Ultra-low Temperature Appliance: Experimental and Simulation Approach, Daniel Hense and Jackson Karnopp
The Two-phase Flow Boiling Heat Transfer Coefficient of R448A Inside Multiport Mini-Channel Tube, Hoang Ngoc Hieu, Nurlaily Agustiarini, and Jong-Taek Oh
Experimental Investigation of Hybrid Air-Conditioning System with Desiccant-Coated Heat Exchanger Using CO2 Refrigerant, Tomohiro HIGASHI, Kohei Tokunaga, Li Zhang, Michiyuki Saikawa, Chaobin Dang, and Eiji Hihara
Experimental Investigation of R454C as a Replacement for R410A in a Residential Heat Pump Split System, Weigang Hou, Hafez Raeisi Fard, Larry Burns, Eckhard A. Groll, Davide Ziviani, and James E. Braun
Design of Phase-change Thermal Storage Device in a Heat Pump for Building Electric Peak Load Shaving, Ransisi Huang, Allison Mahvi, Eric Kozubal, and Jason Woods
Comparison of Multiple Fault Impacts on a Heat Pump and an Air Conditioner in Cooling Mode, Yifeng Hu and David P. Yuill
Cooling Technologies in Datacom Facilities: An Overview and Perspectives, Amin Isazadeh, Davide Ziviani, and David E. Claridge
Application of Feedforward Neural Networks in Battery Electric Vehicle Air Conditioning System Simulations, Abhishek Jain, Nils Framke, Arpit Tiwari, and Mihail Spasov
Compressor Speed, Expansion Valve Opening and Refrigerant Charge Influences on the Propane Unit Design, Zvonimir Jankovic, Branimir Pavkovic, Jaime Sieres, and Marija Zivic
Modular Data Center Direct Expansion HPAC Solutions – Application of R466A as Replacement for R410A, Zvonimir Jankovic, Jaime Sieres, Branimir Pavkovic, and Antun Barac
A White-box Modelling Methodology for Electronic Expansion Valve by Considering Choked Flow, Zhequan Jin, Noma Park, Byeong Hwi Lee, Yoonjei Hwang, Sim Won Chin, and Saikee Oh
Numerical Study Of Novel Regenerator Design For Solid-state Caloric Cycles, Minwoong Kang and Stefan Elbel
Studies On Fluid Dynamics And Heat Transfer Characteristics Of Solid-state Caloric Cycles Using New Electric Heating Apparatus, Minwoong Kang and Stefan Elbel
What’s Important When Designing For A New Refrigerant? Lubricant Perspective, Joseph Anthony Karnaz
Design of a Direct-Contact Thermal Energy Storage Heat Exchanger for the NIST Net-Zero Residential Test Facility: Part 1 Flow Observation, Mark A. Kedzierski and Lingnan Lin
Design of a Direct-Contact Thermal Energy Storage Heat Exchanger for the NIST Net-Zero Residential Test Facility: Part 2 Heat Exchanger Design, Mark Kedzierski and Lingnan Lin
Thermostat Environment Emulator Design Update and Assessment for Load-Based Testing Methodology, Dohyeon Kim, Parveen Dhillon, W. Travis Horton, and James E. Braun
Techno-economic Analysis for Early-Stage Assessment of Chemical Looping Heat Pump Technology, Junyoung Kim, James E. Braun, Eckhard A. Groll, and Davide Ziviani
Effect Of Heat Exchanger Size On Subcooling Control In Residential Air Conditioning Systems, Bruno Yuji Kimura de Carvalho and Pega Hrnjak
Evaluation Of Subcooling Control In Residential Heat Pumps Through Experimental And Model Analysis, Bruno Yuji Kimura de Carvalho and Pega Hrnjak
Development of a Remote Refrigerant Leakage Detection System for VRFs and Chillers, Shunsuke Kimura, Michio Moriwaki, Manabu Yoshimi, Shohei Yamada, Takeshi Hikawa, and Shinichi Kasahara
A Platform-Based Product Family Design Method Using Standardized Models with Physical Similarity Law and Its Application to Room Air Conditioners, Takashi Kobayashi, Shingo Hamada, Naoki Nakagawa, Hajime Ikeda, Hironori Hattori, Takuya Kodama, Xingfa Zhou, Yun Lu, and Hironori Nagai
Effect of Metal Foam Integration on The Thermal Regulation Performance of Salt Hydrate-Based Heat Sink, Amr Mohamed Kotb and Sophie Wang
Experimental Investigation of Additively Manufactured Microchannel Evaporator Performance Using Low-GWP Refrigerants Compared to Conventional Air Cooling in Electronics Cooling, Theresa Kramer, Kevin Lemberg, Riley B. Barta, Mario Raddatz, and Ullrich Hesse
Optimal Operating Temperatures for a Variable-Temperature Thermal Energy Storage System, Patrick Edward Krane, Davide Ziviani, James Braun, Neera Jain, and Amy Marconnet
Chemical Stability Investigations of Low GWP Refrigerants R-1234ze(E), R-450A, R-515B, R-1234yf, R-513A and R-516A with Lubricants with Lubricants., Stephen Kujak, Morgan Herried-Leehey, and Cameron Robaczewski
Chemical Stability Investigations of Low GWP Refrigerants R-454B, R-454C, R-455A, R-468A, R-466A with Lubricants, Stephen Kujak, Morgan Herried-Leehey, and Cameron Robaczewski
Chemical Stability Investigations of Ultra-Low GWP Refrigerants R-1336mzz(Z), R-1336mzz(E), R-514A, R-1233zd(E), and R-1224yd(Z) with Lubricants, Stephen Kujak, Morgan Herried-Leehey, and Cameron Robaczewski
Performance Analysis of a Novel Ejector-assisted Non-cascading Compression-absorption-resorption Refrigeration System, Anil Kumar and Anish Modi
Field Performance Of Domestic Heat Pumps For Heating And Hot Water In Switzerland – Insights And Analysis, Ralph Robert Kuster, Manuel Prinzing, Matthias Berthold, Mick Eschmann, and Stefan Bertsch
On the Pressure Drop of Various Hydraulic Pipes Including 90-Degree Bends and T-Shape Manifolds: 1-D and 3-D Analyses, Hyun Jin Kwon, Yeong Jun Yun, Se-Myong Chang, and Yong Cho
Effect Of Pressure Convection On The Energy Separation In Air Vortex Tube: Dimensional Analysis And Numerical Investigation, Junior Lagrandeur, Sergio Croquer, and Sébastien Poncet