World Refrigeration Day puts the 'cool' in cooling

摘要

Industry embraced the inaugural World Refrigeration Day (WRD) on 26 June with events happening all over the world. The event was conceived to highlight the part that refrigeration plays in everyday life, and supporting events range from celebrating achievements, bringing the industry to the attention of consumers and young people, to educating those both inside and outside of the sector. The date is no coincidence as the physicist William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, was born in Belfast on 26 June 1824. In 1848, at the age of 24, he developed the thermodynamic temperature scale. Even today, the absolute temperature is still measured in units of Kelvin in his honour.