Assessment of the energy performance of household refrigerators via dynamic simulation

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 1153-1165

  Hermes, Christian J L ^a   Melo, Cláudio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Domestic refrigerators; Energy; Performance assessment; Transient simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSORS; FLOW SIMULATION; REFRIGERATORS;

AIR FLOW RATES; AIR TEMPERATURE (T); COMPRESSOR CAPACITY; DESIGN PARAMETERS; DOMESTIC REFRIGERATORS; DYNAMIC SIMULATIONS; ENERGY; ENERGY PERFORMANCE; INSULATION AGING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; START UPS; SUCTION LINE; SYSTEM ENERGY; TEMPERATURE RANGES; TRANSIENT SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 58549119127     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2008.06.007     Document Type: Article

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