. Explain the basic principles of the refrigeration process.

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3. Explain the basic principles of the refrigeration process.
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Now write the principle for the refrigeration process.

Heat flow in direction of decretion of decreasing temperature. the transfer of heat from a low -temperature to a high temperature requires a refrigerator.

The working principle used in refrigeration is the reversed Carnot cycle.

 A refrigerator that works on the reversed Carnot cycle is called a Carnot refrigerator here the input given to the system is works and the desired output will be heat interaction.

 

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