- Author
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Grimes, J. W.
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Mulroy, W.
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Shomaker, B. L.
- Title
- Effect of Usage Conditions on Household Refrigerator-Freezer and Freezer Energy Consumption.
- File
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get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=910792
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
- Journal
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ASHRAE Transactions,
Vol. 83,
No. 1,
1977
- Report
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CH-77-13,
- Keywords
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refrigerators
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energy consumption
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thermostats
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tempeature
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doors
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humidity
- Identifiers
- freezer tests; thermostat setting; refrigerator loading (no door usage); door openings; defrost; automatic-defrost refigerator tests; manual-defrost refrigerator tests; upright freezer tests; chest freezer tests
- Abstract
- A study was made of an automatic - and a manual- defrost refrigerator/freezer combination, and an upright and a chest freezer to measure the effect on energy consumption of five variable usage conditions: thermostat setting, ambient temperature, food load, door-opening frequency, and relative humidity. No evaluation was made of the effect of frost build-up. Ambient temperature and thermostat setting were found to have considerably greater effect on energy consumption than door-opening and relative humidity changes for the specimens tested.