Air compressors are often loud, raucous machines – but they don’t have to be. [Eric Strebel] built a remarkably quiet compressor using parts salvaged from an old fridge. After several years of use, it ...

Compressed air is great to have around the shop. The trouble is, most affordable compressors are somewhere between “wake the dead” and “the reason Pete Townshend is deaf” on the decibel scale. But ...

In the refrigeration cycle, there are five basic components: fluid refrigerant; a compressor, which controls the flow of refrigerant; the condenser coils (on the outside of the fridge); the evaporator ...

Refrigerators and other cooling devices may one day lose their compressors and coils of piping and become solid state, according researchers who are investigating electrically induced heat effects of ...

If you ask a group of people what their favorite household appliance is, many will say the dishwasher or washing machine.

davida1hiwaaynet (David), who took apart a refrigerator compressor manufactured in 2009, said that the 2009's were more efficient than those manufactured in the 1940s and 1950s, at the expense of ...