A REVIEW ON INVESTIGATION AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF A HOUSEHOLD REFRIGERATOR INCORPORATED WITH A PCM BASED CONDENSER

Mechanical Engineering

In this study, a phase transition material (PCM) was adopted for constructing heat storage-PCM device with a setup supported a standard single-door refrigerator. The experimental investigation of the characteristics of the novel refrigerator and a standard refrigerator was administered. For the novel refrigerator, the PCM device at the evaporator ,has replaced the warmth transfer mechanism with the upper rate heat transfer mechanism of a mixture of conduction and convection process during on-time. and therefore the heat gain to the system was absorbed by PCM during the off-time. Thus, the general heat-transfer performance of the evaporator with PCM heat storage exchanger might be significantly improved. This has resulted during a lower condensation temperature, a greater stability of temperature inside cabinet. Compared to the standard refrigerator, the ratio of on-time to the entire cycle time of novel refrigerator was much smaller, which led to lower energy consumption. Experiments demonstrated that the novel refrigerator

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