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E3S Web Conf.
Volume 197, 2020
75th National ATI Congress – #7 Clean Energy for all (ATI 2020)
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| Article Number | 02007 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Energy Efficiency in Buildings and Industry | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202019702007 | |
| Published online | 22 October 2020 | |
On the optimisation of a direct current (dc) hot-wall refrigerator
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132 – 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy
* Corresponding author: amaiorino@unisa.it
This study presents an experimental investigation conducted on a refrigerator powered by direct current and composed of a 166L cabinet, a condenser embedded in the external wall of the compartment (hot-wall), an internal static evaporator, a hermetic variable speed compressor. The refrigerant fluid used is the R290a, a natural fluid. By placing the refrigerator in a temperature-controlled environment, four external temperatures have experimented: 22, 25, 29 and 32 °C. Three different temperature setpoints have been set for each temperature: -5, -10, -20 °C. In this way, 12 test conditions were defined, and each of them was repeated by imposing four different compressor rotation speeds: 2000, 2500, 3000, 3500 rpm. The set of tests allowed to identify for each operating condition the optimal number of operating revolutions aimed at minimising the energy consumption of the analysed device.
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