{{Short description|Technique to cool gases}} {{thermodynamics|cTopic=Processes and Cycles}} The '''Kleemenko cycle''' or '''one-flow cascade cycle''' is a single-stream mixed-refrigerant technique used to cool or liquefy gases. The term "Kleemenko cycle" is used in refrigeration if multi-component refrigerants (MCR) are used in a cycle.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cryogenicsociety.org/resources/cryo_central/history_of_cryogenics/ |title=History of cryogenics |access-date=2008-12-07 |archive-date=2018-03-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327202832/https://www.cryogenicsociety.org/resources/cryo_central/history_of_cryogenics/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The Russian scientist Aleksandr Petrovich Klimenko (Александр Петрович Клименко) described the one-flow cascade cycle in the Proceedings of XIII International Conference of Refrigeration in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1959. It was published in "Progress in Refrigeration Science and Technology", Volume, I Pergamon Press, 1960, pp. 34–39.<ref>[http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3592015.html Rectification column with two component closed heat exchange cycle]</ref>

==See also== *Hampson–Linde cycle *Timeline of low-temperature technology

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==External links== *[http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=1809635 Kleemenko cycle coolers: Low cost refrigeration at cryogenic temperatures]

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