Radio Index
Chillers
Description
Continuing in the tradition of the 1950's DIMENSION X and X MINUS ONE, a series of four radio plays aired early in 2002 over BBC Radio 4, entitled 'Chillers' or 'Chillers, Four Tales of Terror'. All four plays were dramatized by Mike Walker, winner of the 2001 Gold Sony Award for Drama for his original science fiction fable 'Alpha'. Series producer was Ned Chaillet, producer of 'Man In Snow', winner of the 2001 Bronze Sony Award for Drama; Chaillet also directed two of the plays. The other two were directed by Rachel Horan, a young director from Dublin. The plays aired on Radio 4 on Thursdays at 11 PM, each running 30 minutes, bringing the stories of major science fiction authors to radio with modern techniques.
A chiller is a machine that removes heat from a liquid coolant via a vapor-compression, adsorption refrigeration, or absorption refrigeration cycles. This liquid can then be circulated through a heat exchanger to cool equipment, or another process stream. As a necessary by-product, refrigeration creates waste heat that must be exhausted to ambience, or for greater efficiency, recovered for heating purposes. Vapor compression chillers may use any of a number of different types of compressors. Most common today are the hermetic scroll, semi-hermetic screw, or centrifugal compressors. The condensing side of the chiller can be either air or water cooled. Even when liquid cooled, the chiller is often cooled by an induced or forced draft cooling tower. Absorption and adsorption chillers require a heat source to function.
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