Re: Forced Gas Quenching

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Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net> 


----- Original > >You could run air or nitrogen or hydrogen or He, etc.  in
such a system
 > >using the Brayton cycle.
 > For those about to look this up, I've already done it ;-)  The Brayton
 > cycle is the principal behind gas turbines.  Are you proposing a
 > closed-loop Brayton engine, Jim?

Almost all heat engines can be run backwards as a refrigerator.  Rather than
moving heat from hot to cold and getting mechanical work out, you can put
mechanical work in, and move heat from cold to hot.

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