TITLE:
Refrigerator Coupling to a Water-Heater and Heating Floor to Save Energy and to Reduce Carbon Emissions
AUTHORS:
Romdhane Ben Slama
KEYWORDS:
Refrigerator; Recuperator; Heating Water; Heating Floor; Heat Pump
JOURNAL NAME:
Computational Water, Energy, and Environmental Engineering,
Vol.2 No.1,
January
30,
2013
ABSTRACT: With an aim of rationing use
of energy, energy safety, and to reduce carbon emission, our interest was
geared towards the refrigerators and all the refrigerating machines. Indeed the
heat yielded by the exchanger condenser can be developed for the water
heating, floors heating etc. After an encouraging theoretical study, two
prototypes were produced in order to validate the theoretical results. A first
refrigerator was coupled with a water-heater and another with a heating floor. The
water temperature reached, in one day, is of 60℃; which makes it possible to
predict better results with a continuously used refrigerator. In the same way
for the heating floor coupled with the second refrigerator, the temperature
reached high values because the surface is reduced; however for the heating
floors the standard fixes the temperature between 28℃ and 30℃.