The study and performance of a modified conventional refrigerator to serve as a PV powered one

This paper describes the design and development stages to convert a conventional refrigerator to a solar powered one. The development of such a system was effected and the results of this work to provide a cost effective version are given.A conventional refrigerator was chosen and some changes were introduced to reduce the cooling load and consequently the power required. Tests were carried out to study the performance of the refrigerator components and especially the compressor's, as well as the refrigerator as a whole. The latter tests are the well-known pull down tests.The cost effective final product was searched via a PV sizing package developed for the purpose of this project incorporating the LCC analysis.