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Modeling of the Safety Distance between Defrost Heater and Plastic Inner Wall of Refrigerator  

Jung, Young (Digital Appliance Company Research Lab., LG Electronics)
Shin, Jong-Min (Digital Appliance Company Research Lab., LG Electronics)
Tikhonov, Alexei V. (Digital Appliance Company Research Lab., LG Electronics)
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Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering / v.15, no.3, 2003 , pp. 196-202 More about this Journal
Abstract
Two dimensional modeling was carried out to find the safety distance between the defrost heater and the plastic inner wall of domestic refrigerator Estimation was processed for the three cases; the estimation of plastic wall temperature (1) without any protection, (2) with an aluminum foil attached on a wall, and (3) with an aluminum shield installed between heater and wall. The former two cases are found to be dangerous during defrosting process, because the temperatures of inner wall reach above 80'C , which is the upper temperature limit of the wall material. The case with an aluminum shield is considered to be safe by maintaining the temperature of the wall in the range of 6$0^{\circ}C$ during defrosting process.
Keywords
Defrost heat; Plastic inner wall; Safety distance;
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