STUDY OF A NEW SOLAR REFRIGERATOR POWERED BY PVPANELS

摘要

This paper describes the design and the experimental investigation of converted conventional refrigerator to a solar power one. A local conventional refrigerator was chosen and some changes were introduced on it to reduce the power requested. Tests were carried out to study the distribution of the inside air temperature and its effect on the load, and also they present the electric performance of the photovoltaic (PV) modified refrigerator under Bou-ismail (Algeria) climate. The tests revealed that this refrigerator uses a low daily power while employing the eutectic evaporator (PCM). This work enables our team first, to reduce the cost of a photovoltaic system, by opting for a thermal storage cooling to reduce the operating time of the compressor. Second, to have environment-friendly product. It can be concluded that the performance of the eutectic refrigerator is very stable and it can serve for perishable food storage, vaccine, and drug depositing at low temperature in remote areas using half energy and a low number of battery.