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Can a kitchen be cooled indefinitely by leaving the door of the refrigerator open?
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∙ 10y ago
No, although the short-term effect would be for the refrigerator air / freezer air to mix with and cool the air in the room.
The function of refrigerator is a heat exchanger; it removes heat from the inside of the fridge and pumps it to the outside of the fridge.
If we open the refrigerator door, it will remove the heat from the air that mixes inside, but then will exchange the heat back into the kitchen. That's why the room can't be cooled for a long period. In fact, due to waste heat, the room could become warmer once the refrigerator contents have reached room temperature.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 14y agoNo, in-fact this act will increase the temperature, and increase your electric bill.
A refrigerator cools its inside by getting ride of the heat out the back, into the same kitchen area.
Opening the refrigerator will for short time cool part of the area around the open door, but even more heat will be created by the electrically driven cooling device that gets ride of it's excess heat into the the kitchen.
Once the outside air starts to warm it's interior, the refrigeration unit will go into overtime trying to cool the interior. Thus you created a loop effect of heating and cooling the same air, and electricity is wasted in doing so.
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∙ 13y agoNo, in most homes the refrigerator is the second largest user of electricity. Keeping this appliance open is simply a waste of energy. Instead, use a fan or open a window to cool down the kitchen.
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∙ 11y agoNo you can't. In fact by opening the door, you will increase the work load of the refrigerator which in-turn will increase the temperature of the room. So by opening the door, you would actually make the room more hot. Refrigerator basically takes heat from cold region and through it to hot region. The hot region is the vent behind the refrigerator, which is basically in the same room. So refrigerator throws heat in the same room. By increasing the work load, you are making it to through more heat in the room.
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∙ 13y agoyou cannot cool the kitchen by keeping the refrigerator door open
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∙ 14y agono it is because it will waste your electricity
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Can a kitchen be cooled by leaving the door of the refrigerator open?
No, although the short-term effect would be for the refrigerator air / freezer air to mix with and cool the air in the room.The function of refrigerator is a heat exchanger; it removes heat from the inside of the fridge and pumps it to the outside of the fridge.If we open the refrigerator door, it will remove the heat from the air that mixes inside, but then will exchange the heat back into the kitchen. That's why the room can't be cooled for a long period. In fact, due to waste heat, the room could become warmer once the refrigerator contents have reached room temperature.
Why a room can be warmed by leaving open the door of an oven but cannot be cooled by leaving open the door of a kitchen refrigerator?
the second law of thermodynamics proves that heat always flows from hot to cold. It is hard to give good every day examples, since when you open the refrigerator door you feel cold but actually the room is warming the fridge.
How is the air cooled in a household refrigerator?
It goes through the pipes
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What Igneous rock are made out of what?
Granite tables in the kitchen.
Cooled liquid leaving the radiator travels through what?
lower radiator hose
Cooled liquid leaving the radiator travels through the?
Lower radiator hose.
Can a room be cooled by leaving the door of refrigerator open?
No, leaving the door of a refrigerator open will not cool a room, but will actually make the room hotter. A refrigerator cools its own interior by pumping heat to the heat exchange coils in the back (some models do not have exposed heat exchange coils, but the sides or back of the refrigerator have coils just underneath them, and they get hot). Those heat exchange coils pump heat into the room. Since the process is not 100% efficient, the amount of heat produced includes a certain amount of waste heat. As a result, pumping heat from one part of the room to another part of the room results in a net increase in heat.
Can it is possible to use water cooled condensor for domestic refrigerator?
Did you get an answer? I've found some references to water cooled refrigerators on boats, but can't find anything online about residential models.
I heard that hot chicken broth will spoil if put into a refrigerator in a sealed container. Should be cooled in the refrigerator first before putting on a lid tightly so that it won't spoil?
Bad advice.
Refrigerator not getting cold?
There is insulation between the freezer and refrigerator; additionally, in most refrigerators, the freezer is the only part that is mechanically cooled. The leftover cool air from the freezer is vented into the refrigerator section, and the dials that control the refrigerator's cooling levels generally just determine how much of the freezer air is allowed into the refrigerator chamber.
Is it safe to store food in a pot in the refrigerator?
Of course you can. The food in the pot will not cause any harm to your refrigerator as long as the pot has cooled down. It's probably not safe to put the Teflon pot in the refrigerator if it scorching hot. That might not be safe. Mr. Know it all
