• Dr. Kamal Kishore Pathak

Paris Agreement on Climate Change, at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, aimed to keep global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2100 and called for efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius to avoid serious climate catastrophes around the world. The participants also aimed to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases by promoting the use of zero carbon technologies. The air conditioning system is one of the most important sub-system in automobiles. Conventional vehicles use vapour compression refrigeration technology for air conditioning purpose, but this technology is energy inefficient and the refrigerants that are used in this system are undesirable for environmental reasons. Researchers are constantly attempting to develop a more efficient alternative refrigeration system to avoid the damage to the environment. Magnetic refrigeration is one such emerging technology that has the potential to lower the carbon emissions. Magnetic refrigeration can reduce the energy consumption for refrigeration by 30% without the use of refrigerant. The magnetic refrigeration working principle is based on a phenomenon known as the magneto-caloric effect (MCE). According to magneto-caloric effect (MCE), some exotic materials such as gadolinium and dysprosium, heat up when subjected to a magnetic field and cool down when the magnetic field is removed. The main objective of this paper is to develop an efficient air conditioning system for the light weight vehicles which can operate on magneto-caloric effect and thus helps in reducing carbon footprints.

Air conditioning system, Magnetic refrigeration, Magneto-caloric effect

"AIR CONDITIONING OF LIGHT WEIGHT VEHICLES USING MAGNETIC REFRIGERATION SYSTEM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.426-428, May 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCW06083.pdf

"AIR CONDITIONING OF LIGHT WEIGHT VEHICLES USING MAGNETIC REFRIGERATION SYSTEM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp426-428, May 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCW06083.pdf