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Magnetocaloric Materials for Freezing, Cooling, and Heat-Pump Applications

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Magnetocaloric materials (MCM) are the ‘heart’ of every magnetic refrigeration or heat-pump application. Apart from having a crucial role in the heat-regeneration process, they also exhibit a special and vital phenomenon for magnetic refrigeration called the magnetocaloric effect.

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    Andrej Kitanovski, Urban Tomc, Uroš Plaznik, Marko Ožbolt & Alojz Poredoš

  2. Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark, Roskilde, Denmark

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Kitanovski, A., Tušek, J., Tomc, U., Plaznik, U., Ožbolt, M., Poredoš, A. (2015). Magnetocaloric Materials for Freezing, Cooling, and Heat-Pump Applications. In: Magnetocaloric Energy Conversion. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08741-2_2

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