Magnetocalorics: cooling with magnets

The magnetocaloric effect offers opportunities to develop more environment-friendly, novel refrigerators and air conditioning systems.

Magnetocaloric materials significantly improve the economic and ecological operation of refrigerating processes.

This means that no climatically harmful refrigerants will be needed in future

Old effect – rediscovered for technology:

The magnetocaloric effect provides economic and ecological benefits in every household:

  • Greatly reduced energy consumption
  • No need for compressors and environmentally harmful refrigerants
  • No high initial investments are needed for the technology change-over
  • Fast and complete access to the new energy saving equipment for consumers
BASF is developing:

new materials allowing the magnetocaloric effect to be used at room temperature.

The concerted activities of Amsterdam University, BASF and our partners from industry will progress the technology to market in a few years.