As refrigeration has become one of the basic needs people of this era. The permanent demand of refrigerator is continuously increases in India and also in the whole world. The energy consumption in the refrigeration is also increases. Approximately it contribute around 13% energy consume in this sector. In the kitchen appliances, only the refrigerator consumes power continuously throughout a da...

This paper presents a cost-effective method to increase the COP and utility of a domestic refrigerator using R-134a refrigerant. A cabin was installed on the top of a domestic refrigerator with condenser coils of refrigerator serving as heating coils inside the cabin. Known quantity of water was heated by the condenser coils (due to convection currents) thereby increasing the overall COP of the...