Preliminary engineering analysis for clothes washers

Technical Report · Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1996

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/783768· OSTI ID:783768

Biermayer, Peter J

The Engineering Analysis provides information on efficiencies, manufacturer costs, and other characteristics of the appliance class being analyzed. For clothes washers, there are two classes: standard and compact. Since data were not available to analyze the compact class, only clothes washers were analyzed in this report. For this analysis, individual design options were combined and ordered in a manner that resulted in the lowest cumulative cost/savings ratio. The cost/savings ratio is the increase in manufacturer cost for a design option divided by the reduction in operating costs due to fuel and water savings.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. Office of Building Technology, State and Community Programs. Office of Building Research and Standards (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 783768
• Report Number(s): LBNL-47889; R&D Project: 472234; TRN: AH200128%%202
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: 1 Oct 1996
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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