The 7th International Conference on Compressors and Refrigeration (ICCR2015) was held at XJTU Academic Exchange Center from October 16 to 18, 2015. The conference was co-organized by XJTU, China Refrigeration Association, China Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Industry Association, China General Machines Industry Association, Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI), and Japan Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Industry Association (JRAIA).

Nearly 150 conference participants from around ten countries and regions, such as the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Brazil, Canada, Sweden, Brussels, and Australia etc engaged academic exchanges and discussions on latest technologies of compressors and air-conditioning.

The conference sets up four parallel sessions. Over 60 scholars in and out of China exchanged their views in regard to technologies, information, problems and solutions of different compressors and their systems, refrigeration compressors and refrigeration systems, compressors lubrication and insulation technologies, vibration and noises, automatic control and diagnosis technologies, refrigeration air-conditioning system and equipments, food freezing and storage technologies, heat pump technologies and energy recycling systems, air-conditioning and architectural energy conservation technologies, gas :liquefacation and separation, and new refrigeration materials etc. The papers gathered on the conference were collated into the ICCR 2015 proceedings and published by XJTU Press.