Prediction of the energy consumption of household refrigerators and freezers via steady-state simulation

Applied Energy

Volumn 86, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 1311-1319

  Hermes, Christian J L ^a   Melo, Cláudio ^a   Knabben, Fernando T ^a   Gonçalves, Joaquim M ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b Federal Center of Technological Education of Santa Catarina   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Domestic refrigerators; Energy consumption; Experimental validation; Numerical simulation; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; REFRIGERATION; REFRIGERATORS;

ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; DOMESTIC REFRIGERATORS; DYNAMIC SIMULATION CODES; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; HOUSEHOLD REFRIGERATORS; REFRIGERATION SYSTEM; STEADY-STATE SIMULATIONS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

COST; ENERGY USE; EQUIPMENT; HOUSEHOLD ENERGY; MODEL VALIDATION; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 61749086941     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2008.10.008     Document Type: Article

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