Facilities
The ACRC is home to world-class component and system testing experimental facilities that enable us to pursue our mission.
Our Test Facilities
Facilities Overview
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Heat Exchanger Test Bed; Capacitive Sensor; and Experimental Wind Tunnel
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Air Conditioning and Heat Pump Systems Lab
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Test Facility of Large-scale Air Cooled Condensers; Refrigerant Condensation Experimentation Setup; and Probe Station System
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Videos edited by Juanise Moya, Media Cinema Studies. Recorded by Salome Liebenberg.
Our Research Equipment
Ablimation and Condensation Frosting Vacuum Chamber (Nenad Miljkovic)
Automatic Brazing Setup (Nenad Miljkovic)
BrightDark-Field Optical Characterization
Calorimeter Bar Setup for Device Characterization (Nenad Miljkovic)
Chemical Vapor Deposition System
Climate Controlled Wind Tunnel Setup for Heat Exchanger Testing (Nenad Miljkovic)
Conditioned Refrigerant Flow Facility to Study Expansion Devices
Custom Peltier Environmental Chamber and Visualization System (Nenad Miljkovic)
Defrosting Setup (Nenad Miljkovic)
Durability of Surfaces Due to Droplet Sliding (Nenad Miljkovic)
Durability Vacuum Chamber (Nenad Miljkovic)
Flow Boiling Rig (Nenad Miljkovic)
Flow Fouling Setup (Nenad Miljkovic)
Fog Harvesting (Nenad Miljkovic)
Frost Growth Dynamics Testbed (Nenad Miljkovic)
Heat Exchanger Testbed – Quiescent Conditions (Nenad Miljkovic)
High Speed Cameras (Nenad Miljkovic)
Immersion Cooling Setup (Nenad Miljkovic)
Kyowa MCA-3 Microgoniometer (Nenad Miljkovic)
Optical Microscope (Nenad Miljkovic)
Pool Boiling Setup (Nenad Miljkovic)
Pulse Defrosting Setup (Nenad Miljkovic)
Q-Fog Corrosion Tester (Nenad Miljkovic)
Quantification of Flow-Induced Noise
Rapid Thermal Synthesis System
Thermal Switch Setup (Nenad Miljkovic)
Tube Durability Setup (Nenad Miljkovic)
Vertical Condensation (Nenad Miljkovic)