Researchers have come up with an entirely new approach to the refrigeration process.

It is called Ionocaloric cooling. The process has the potential to be safer and environmentally responsible. It does so by reducing mercury emissions during refrigeration.

The majority of refrigeration systems work by removing heat from a room using a gas that cools as it expands further away from the original location. The process employs some of the gases that are also among the most harmful to the surrounding ecosystem.

However, there is more than one technique to force a substance into absorbing and expelling heat energy from its surroundings.

What is an ion?

An ion is an atom or molecule that has a positive or negative electric charge.

Key facts!

• Scientists have come up with a new way to use energy that takes advantage of the fact that it can be stored or released.
• Think about what happens to an ice block when the temperature is raised.
• The ice block will eventually melt.
• We might not notice right away that melting draws heat from its surroundings and successfully cools itself down.
• The melting of ice could be sped up by adding a small number of ions without having to raise the temperature.
• Salt is used in the ionocaloric cycle to change the state of a fluid and cool the area around it.
• Researchers say that the ions inside the system would move if there was a current going through it.
• This would then cause the melting point of the material to change, which would cause the temperature to change.
• The group also did tests with a salt made of iodine and sodium.
• This common organic solvent could make the system’s potential for global warming zero.
• Now that the technology has been made, researchers need to put it to use in real-world systems that are strong enough to be used in commercial settings.

Explained Channel describes the existing method of refrigeration.

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