VANHOUTTE, PAUL M., AND ROBERT R. LORENZ. E$ect of temperature on reactivity of saphenous, mesenteric, and femoral veins of the dog. Am. J. Physiol. 218(6) : 1746-l 750. 1970.-The contraction of cutaneous veins of the dog caused by sympathetic nerve stimulation or by vasoactive drugs has been found previously to be potentiated by cooling and depressed by warming. To determine if this effect was...

Background—Although delayed hospital cooling has been demonstrated to improve outcome after cardiac arrest, in-field cooling started immediately after the return of spontaneous circulation may be more beneficial. The aims of the present pilot study were to assess the feasibility, safety, and effectiveness of in-field cooling. Methods and Results—We determined the effect on esophageal temperatur...

In steam power plants, any improvement in the cooling towers thermal performance will cause the condenser's temperature to decrease; which in turn enhances the power plant's efficiency. Due to water shortage, many power plants all around the world rely on natural draft dry cooling towers (Heller type). In these cooling towers, condenser's exit hot water is pumped to vertical or horizontal finne...

BACKGROUND Although delayed hospital cooling has been demonstrated to improve outcome after cardiac arrest, in-field cooling started immediately after the return of spontaneous circulation may be more beneficial. The aims of the present pilot study were to assess the feasibility, safety, and effectiveness of in-field cooling. METHODS AND RESULTS We determined the effect on esophageal temperat...

Gas clouds under the influence of gravitation in thermodynamic equilibrium cannot be isothermal due to the Dufour effect, the energy flux induced by density gradients. In galaxy clusters this effect may be responsible for most of the ”cooling flows” instead of radiative cooling of the gas. Observations from XMM-Newton and Chandra satellites agree well with model calculations, assuming equilibri...

A novel solar-based combined system which is consisting of a concentrated PV, a double effect LiBr-H2O absorption chiller, and a Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) is proposed for hydrogen production. A portion of the received energy is recovered to run a double effect absorption chiller and the rest is turned into electricity, being consumed in the PEM electrolyzer for hydrogen producti...

AIM Up to now, modern miniature cryoprobes have been used successfully for local destruction of soft tissue tumors without damaging adjacent healthy tissue. In this study, the methodology of cryoablation was applied to bone and the freezing effect as well as the cooling capacity of the probe was examined in vivo and in vitro. METHODS Freezing was performed by cooling one or two probes, with a...

The authors propose a solar cooling system employing a steam-driven triple effect absorption chiller as a new technique for saving CO2 emission in the air conditioning field. The absorption chiller is a cooling machine using thermal energy as a drive source, and it is ideal for utilizing solar heat. In addition, by employing a triple effect absorption chiller of high efficiency, a high energy s...

Good mechanical properties and large adiabatic temperature change render Heusler-type Ni2FeGa-based magnetic shape memory alloys as a promising candidate material for solid-state mechanical cooling application at ambient conditions. Superelastic behavior and associated elastocaloric effect strongly reply on deformation conditions (e.g. applied strain rate and strain level) of stress-induced mar...