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Default Efficient European clothes dryers

http://www.crosslee.co.uk/cl847.html

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d..._BID_Stores_IT

Further info:

Declared/published performance of the 847 A Class machine is:
With test conditions as stipulated in EN 61121- European standard.
Dry cotton load = 5kg, Room temperature 20C
Energy to dry the above load in A class mode = 2.5 kWh
Wetted condition of test load = 70% so 3.5kg of water or 7.7 lbs
Time to dry the test load under these conditions = 8hrs.

Please note that modern washing machines spin dry at higher spinning speeds
than when the standard was written so better performance can be expected...


.... 2.5kWhx3412/7.7lb = 1108 Btu/lb. Given the long drying time, this might
be vented indoors... 7.7/8 = 0.96 lb/h, so it would only raise the indoor
humidity ratio of an average house in Phila with 224 cfm of air leakage in
January to 0.0025+0.96/(60x224x0.075) = 0.00345, ie 22% RH at 70 F.

But is there a non-heat-pump machine that dries with less than
1000 Btu/lb of electrical energy, like an indoor clothesline?

Nick