磁制冷技术最新研究进展

New Development of Research on Magnetic Refrigeration Technology

磁制冷技术作为一种环保高效的新型制冷技术,受到了越来越多人的关注。与传统的气体压缩式制冷相比,磁制冷具有非常大的竞争力。随着材料科学和制冷循环理论等的不断发展,磁制冷技术必然有着广阔的发展前景。阐述了磁制冷技术的工作原理和典型磁制冷循环的研究进展情况,重点介绍了磁性材料以及活性蓄冷器的最新研究现状。

As an environmentally efficient new refrigeration technology, magnetic refrigeration technology have drawn more and more people＇s attention. Compared with the conventional gas compression cooling, magnetic refrigeration is very com- petitive. Magnetic refrigeration technology is sure to have broad prospects for development with the continuous development of material science and cooling cycle theory. In this paper, the working principle of the magnetic refrigeration technology as well as the research progress of the typical magnetic refrigeration cycles are illustrated. The new development of the magnet- ic material and the active magnetic refrigerator are introduced.