Carl Munters

Carl Georg Munters ( pronunciation : [ ˌkɑːɹl ˈmɵnːtəʂ ], born March 22, 1897 in Dala-Järna , Vansbro municipality ; † 1989 ) was a Swedish engineer.

His parents were the engineer Anders Johan Munters and Hilman Bernhardina Helling. In 1922 he graduated from the Royal Technical University of Stockholm . He married Anna Eugenia Geralf in 1925 and Marianne Warkander in 1951.

In 1922 as a student, together with Baltzar von Platen and John Tandberg, he developed an absorption refrigeration machine with hydrogen as an auxiliary gas, in which ammonia was heated to above boiling point in a closed system and then liquefied again.

A patent for it was granted on March 8, 1923, and AB Arctic began producing the refrigerator. Development was completed in 1925, Electrolux acquired the "von Platen-Munters" patent and introduced the world's first absorber refrigerator for households. In 1926 a patent was granted for this in the USA.

In 1955 he founded the Munters company with Marcus Wallenberg and two others . Here he invented the sorption wheel . He retired from management in the early 1970s and shortly thereafter Munters was taken over by the Incentive Group.

At the time of his death, he held over 1,000 patents.

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SURNAME	Munters, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Munters, Carl Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish engineer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 22, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dala-Järna, Vansbro (municipality)
DATE OF DEATH	1989