Energy Consumption of Major Household Appliances Shipped in Canada – Trends for
1990–2006

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Appendix B – Definitions

Clothes Washer

An appliance that is designed to clean clothes using a water solution of soap or detergent or both and mechanical agitation or other movement.

Canada's Energy Efficiency Regulations (the Regulations) apply to standard or compact electrically operated household clothes washers that are top- or front-loading and that have an internal control system that regulates the water temperature without the need for user intervention after the machine starts.

Dishwasher

A cabinet-like appliance, either built-in or portable, that, with the aid of water and detergent, washes, rinses and dries (when a drying process is included) dishware, glassware, eating utensils and most cooking utensils by chemical, mechanical and electrical means and then discharges the water into the plumbing drainage system.

The Regulations apply to electrically operated automatic household dishwashers that are not commercial, industrial or institutional machines.

Electric Clothes Dryer

A cabinet-like appliance designed to dry fabrics in a tumble-type drum with forced-air circulation. The heat source is electricity, and the drum and the blower(s) are driven by electric motor(s).

The EnerGuide Appliance Directory groups electric clothes dryers into two categories:

• Compact Size – a clothes dryer with drum volume of less than 125 litres
• Standard Size – a clothes dryer with drum volume of 125 litres

The Regulations apply to standard and compact electrically operated and electrically heated household tumble-type clothes dryers.

Electric Range

A consumer product using electric resistance heating and used as the major household cooking appliance. The product may consist of a cook top, one or more ovens, or a combination of the two, and may be built-in or free-standing.

The Regulations apply to household ranges that are any of the following:

• free-standing appliances equipped with one or more surface elements and one or more ovens
• built-in appliances equipped with one or more surface elements and one or more ovens
• built-in appliances equipped with one or more ovens and no surface elements
• wall-mounted appliances equipped with one or more ovens and no surface elements
• counter-mounted appliances equipped with one or more surface elements and no ovens
  
  but do not include the following:
  
  
• microwave cooking appliances
• portable appliances designed for an electrical supply of 120 volts
• household appliances with one or more tungsten-halogen heating elements

Freezer

An appliance designed

• for the extended storage of food frozen at an average temperature of -17.8°C (0°F) or lower
• with the inherent capability for freezing food
• with a minimum freezing capability of 2 kilograms / 100 litres in 24 hours

The process of freezing involves removing heat from products to lower their temperatures to a point where most of the water contained therein is solidified.

In 2006, freezers were typically built as either vertical models or chest models and grouped into the following types:

Type 8
Upright freezers with manual defrost

Type 9
Upright freezers with automatic defrost

Type 10
Chest freezers and all other freezers

Type 16
Compact upright freezers with manual defrost

Type 17
Compact upright freezers with automatic defrost

Type 18
Compact chest freezers and all other freezers

The Regulations apply to household freezers that have a capacity of not more than 850 litres (30 cubic feet).

Refrigerator

An appliance that consists of one or more compartments, with at least one of the compartments designed for the refrigerated storage of foods at temperatures above 0°C (32°F) and, if the model is a refrigerator-freezer, with at least one of the compartments designed for the freezing and storage of frozen foods at or below an average temperature of -15°C (5°F) and typically capable of being adjusted by the user to a temperature of
<-17.8°C (0°F). The refrigerator with a freezer compartment is capable of maintaining simultaneously an average freezer temperature of <-15°C (5°F) and an average fresh food compartment temperature of > 0°C < 5°C (> 32°F < 41°F).

In 2006, refrigerators as per in the EnerGuide Appliance Directory were grouped under the following main categories:

Type 1
Refrigerators and refrigerator-freezers with manual defrost

Type 2
Refrigerator-freezers with partial automatic defrost

Type 3
Refrigerator-freezers with automatic defrost and top-mounted freezer, but without through-the-door ice service; also all-refrigerators³³ with automatic defrost

Type 4
Refrigerator-freezers with automatic defrost and side-mounted freezer but without through-the-door ice service

Type 5
Refrigerator-freezers with automatic defrost and bottom-mounted freezer, but without through the door ice service

Type 5A
Refrigerator-freezers with automatic defrost and bottom-mounted freezer and with through the door ice service

Type 6
Refrigerator-freezers with automatic defrost, top-mounted freezer and through-the-door ice service

Type 7
Refrigerator-freezers with automatic defrost, side-mounted freezer and through-the-door ice service

Type 11
Compact refrigerators and refrigerator-freezers with manual defrost

Type 12
Compact refrigerators and refrigerator-freezers with partial automatic defrost

Type 13
Compact refrigerator-freezers with automatic defrost and top-mounted freezer; also compact all-refrigerators with automatic defrost

Type 14
Compact refrigerator-freezers with automatic defrost and side-mounted freezer

Type 15
Compact refrigerator-freezers with automatic defrost and bottom-mounted freezer

The Regulations apply to household refrigerators or combination refrigerator-freezers that have a capacity of not more than 1100 litres (39 cubic feet), with the exception of refrigerators that employ an absorption refrigeration system.

³³ The term “all-refrigerators” refers to models that have no freezer compartment.

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