The DOI matches its Crossref record; 13 of the 13 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Novel design and performance enhancement of domestic refrigerators with thermal storage
Open accessAbstract
This paper investigates the design and operation of a thermal storage refrigerator. Firstly, compressor performance at a range of typical refrigerator operating conditions was analysed. The model results suggest that larger compressors are more efficient when running, with isentropic efficiency increasing by 50% as the displacement increased from 4 to 8 cm3. The impact of compressor performance on the overall refrigerator efficiency was estimated and the results indicated that an energy reduction of 19.5% can be obtained by replacing a conventionally sized, 4 cm3 compressor by a larger 8 cm3 model. However, using a larger compressor will normally lead to more start/stop events, which reduces overall efficiency. A method is proposed for exploiting the superior performance of large compressors by accumulating their high cooling capacity output in a phase change material (PCM), reducing the number of on/off cycles. Numerical modelling and experimental validation were undertaken using a prototype thermal storage refrigerator, incorporating a PCM, to estimate the PCM charge and discharge rate and the corresponding refrigerator on and off cycle durations at different ambient conditions. The results showed that the integration of a 5 mm PCM slab into the refrigerator allowed for 3–5 h of continuous operation without a power supply. The numerical model was found to be in good agreement with the experimental results, with the error between the simulation and tests below 5% for most experiments.
Overview
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
In the citing paper
“It is discovered that for air-conditioning and refrigeration applications temperatures of around À5 to 15 °C are ideal for thermal storage [77][78][79], but at lower temperatures, phase change based heat storage materials are better than reactive substances such as water.”
From Latent thermal energy storage technologies and applications: A review (2020) · cites this paper as [77]
In the citing paper
“It is discovered that for air-conditioning and refrigeration applications temperatures of around À5 to 15 °C are ideal for thermal storage [77][78][79], but at lower temperatures, phase change based heat storage materials are better than reactive substances such as water.”
From Latent thermal energy storage technologies and applications: A review (2020) · cites this paper as [77]
Citations
Cites
Heat and cold storage with PCM: An up to date introduction into basics and applications
Mehling, H., & Cabeza, L. F. (2008) · Heat and Mass Transfer · doi:10.1007/978-3-540-68557-9 · Cited by 894
Mathematical Modeling of Melting and Freezing Processes
Alexiades, V., Solomon, A. D., & Lunardini, V. J. (1993) · Journal of Solar Energy Engineering · doi:10.1115/1.2930032 · Cited by 844
VERMA, P., Varun, & Singal, S. K. (2007) · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.rser.2006.11.002 · Cited by 317
Azzouz, K., Leducq, D., & Gobin, D. (2009) · International Journal of Refrigeration · doi:10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2009.03.012 · Cited by 211
Coulomb, D. (2008) · Trends in Food Science & Technology · doi:10.1016/j.tifs.2008.03.006 · Cited by 173
Mathematical Modelling of Melting and Freezing Processes.
Finlayson, B. A. (1994) · Chemical Engineering Science · doi:10.1016/0009-2509(94)87026-8 · Cited by 105
Saidur, R., Masjuki, H. H., & Choudhury, I. A. (2002) · Energy Conversion and Management · doi:10.1016/s0196-8904(01)00069-3 · Cited by 96
Liu, D.-Y., Chang, W.-R., & Lin, J.-Y. (2004) · Applied Thermal Engineering · doi:10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2004.01.009 · Cited by 70
Refrigerant mass charge distribution in a domestic refrigerator, Part I: Transient conditions
Björk, E., & Palm, B. E. (2005) · Applied Thermal Engineering · doi:10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2005.10.003 · Cited by 67
Domanski, P. A. (1995) · doi:10.6028/nist.ir.5606 · Cited by 66
Research works printed but not linked: 1
- Pearson, 2003
Cited by
A Comprehensive Review of Thermal Energy Storage
Sarbu, I., & Sebarchievici, C. (2018) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su10010191 · Cited by 1,311
Latent thermal energy storage technologies and applications: A review
Jouhara, H., Żabnieńska-Góra, A., Khordehgah, N., Ahmad, D., & Lipinski, T. (2020) · International Journal of Thermofluids · doi:10.1016/j.ijft.2020.100039 · Cited by 543
“It is discovered that for air-conditioning and refrigeration applications temperatures of around −5 to 15 C are ideal for thermal storage [77]–[79], but at lower temperatures, phase change based heat storage materials are better than reactive substances such as water.”
Background
Metadata
- Authors
- Marques, A. C., Davies, G. F., Maidment, G. G., Evans, J. A., & Wood, I. D.
- Affiliations
- London South Bank University (GB)
- Venue
- Applied Thermal Engineering
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-02
- Volume
- 63
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 511-519
- ISSN
- 1359-4311 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1972201904
- Cited by
- 101
- References
- 13
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 8
- FWCI
- 7.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- Locations
- Applied Thermal Engineering (publishedVersion)
- Research Open (London South Bank University) (acceptedVersion)
- Research Open (London South Bank University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technologies
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Phase Change Materials Research
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Adsorption and Cooling Systems
- Keywords
- household refrigerators, phase change materials, compressor performance, isentropic efficiency, energy consumption reduction, start-stop cycling, PCM charging and discharging, off-grid refrigeration, ambient temperature effects
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Novel design and performance enhancement of domestic refrigerators with thermal storage. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2013.11.043
- The paper
- Marques, A. C., Davies, G. F., Maidment, G. G., Evans, J. A., & Wood, I. D. (2014). Novel design and performance enhancement of domestic refrigerators with thermal storage. Applied Thermal Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2013.11.043
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
