Refrigerators, ever since their conception, have always relied upon moving components - whether they are of a pump or of a compressor - to deliver the necessary work and heat input towards producing refrigeration. In today's energy-driven economy, emphasis must be placed on to reducing the total energy consumption of the populous, as well as the resources involved in manufacturing conventional refrigerators. This is where the Thermo Acoustic Refrigerator (TAR), comes in. The purpose of this study is to design, fabricate and test an economically sound prototype of a TAR, so as to elucidate the technological and economic potential of thermoacoustic refrigeration as a replacement to conventional vapor-driven refrigeration. In the first part, a general introduction of refrigeration and TAR is carried out, followed by the second part, where design parameters are discussed and defined. The third part involves the actual fabrication of the TAR along with its assembly. The last parts document the results and their explanations, as well as the improvements that can be made to any future prototypes.
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