Journal article
Opening the door on refrigerator energy consumption: quantifying the key drivers in the home
L Harrington, L Aye, RJ Fuller
Energy Efficiency | SPRINGER | Published : 2018
Abstract
There is little concrete understanding of the energy consumption of refrigerating appliances during normal use or the main influences on their energy consumption. To date, no widely accepted method to disaggregate measured energy consumption measured in the home into its key components has been demonstrated. This paper examines the main external factors that impact on the energy consumption of existing refrigerating appliances in the home and how they respond to changing conditions, namely: room air temperature, defrosting behaviour and user interactions. Analysis of field data from 235 homes in Australia demonstrates that room air temperature is by far the largest factor accounting for typi..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The cooperation and assistance of the 290 participating households for this research are gratefully acknowledged. The authors gratefully acknowledge the supply of field measurements for 39 appliances by Sustainability Victoria for the purpose of research and development work at the University of Melbourne. This research has been conducted within the Department of Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Australia and part of this research is included in the PhD thesis of Lloyd Harrington at the University of Melbourne, which has been supported by the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship.