Multipurpose warm chamber from the waste heat of domestic refrigerator

Abstract

The present invention relates to multipurpose warming apparatus utilizing the waste heat of a domestic refrigerator. The multipurpose warming apparatus is constructed as an additional part of the refrigerator and as an additional facility and heated using the waste heat generated by the refrigerator has several household uses like food warming, domestic fermentation purposes like curd making, fermentation for Indian dishes like Idli, Dosa etc., fermentation to grow yeast and to make western food like bread, pizza, burger etc. The apparatus comprises a warm chamber (1) housing the compressor (2) of the domestic refrigerator (3) and provided with the heat exchanger coil outside the refrigerator (4) as the heating element (4) of the warm chamber (1). The heat exchanger coil (4) forms the heating element of this chamber. The top, left and bottom heating elements are the heat exchange coils (4) of the refrigerator and the compressor (2) itself forms/acts as the right side-heating element. The maximum temperature of the chamber can be as high as 50° C., and the average temperature will be around 40° C., which is more than sufficient for most of the domestic food warming kind of applications.

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