Highlights the salient differences among various standards for household refrigerator-freezers and proposes a methodology for predicting the performance of a single evaporator-based vapour-compression refrigeration system (either refrigerator or freezer) from one test standard (where the test data are available - the reference case) to another (the alternative case). the standards studied during this investigation include the Australian-New Zealand Standard (ANZS), the International Standard (ISO), the American National Standard (ANSI), the Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS), and the Chinese National Standard (CNS). A simple analysis in conjunction with the BICYCLE model (Bansal and Rice 1993) is used to calculate the energy consumption of two refrigerator cabinets from the reference case to the alternative cases. The proposed analysis includes the effect of door openings (as required by the JIS) as well as defrost heaters. The analytical results are found to agree reasonably well with the experimental observations for translating energy consumption information from one standard to another.

KEYWORDS: year 1995, domestic, refrigerators, freezers, testing, standards, calculating, performance, compression refrigeration, computer programs, energy consumption, algorithms, comparing