Can a refrigerator be kept open to use it as an AC?

Answer 1

it will work for a few hours than burn out the motor!

so no!


take a cold shower and stand by a fan!

Answer 2

Law of conservation of energy has to be obeyed.
An AC cools because its heat exhaust is directed outside the room while only the cool draft is allowed inside. Since a refrigerator is inside the house, all the cool air will be nullified by the heat released at the back. Also, since entropy always increases, and work is being done, more heat is produced than the cooling effect. And its compressor and support system isn't designed to overwork for long periods. And within a few hours, your house will end up warmer than it was before.

So no, a fridge cannot be used as an AC.

Answer 3

No. Half of any window type air conditioner is sticking outside the window to reject heat removed from the room to the outside atmosphere. A refrigerator rejects the heat removed from food etc. to the room it stands in. Leaving the door open will keep the refrigerator running all the time. Although the cooled air will hug the floor and the rejected heat will hug the ceiling, the net effect is to add heat to the room. If a refrigerator uses 1000 watts of electric power it would be like adding a 1000 watt heater to the room. Eventually the entire room would have to heat up, right?

Answer 4

Air conditioning does not blow around corners and the BTU British thermal units, is not great enough to cool the ambient room temp, the room temperature would take over the refrigerator and the refrigerator would just run and run and not shut off, but in a very small room it would, a sealed room no air the compressor would heat up the room after it was cool, if the heat from the compressor was exhausted to the out side it would cool a very very small room. now if you leave you freezer door open it melts the ice so this prove it will not work unless its a 5 ton chiller like at the grocery store

Answer 5

see Aircooler is one method of dissipating heat. It works by making the object to be cooled have a larger surface area or have an increased flow of air over its surface, or both. An example of the former is to add fins to the surface of the object, either by making them integral or by attaching them tightly to the object's surface (to ensure efficient heat transfer). In the case of the latter it is done by using a fan blowing air into the object one wants to cool. In many cases the addition of fins adds to the total volume of material making a heatsink that makes for greater efficiency in cooling.In all cases the air has to be cooler than the object or surface from which it is expected to remove heat because thermodynamics says that heat moves from higher to lower levels.
while...A refrigerant is a compound used in a heat cycle that undergoes a phase change from a gas to a liquid and back. The two main uses of refrigerants are refrigerators/freezers and air conditioners.coolant.The ideal refrigerant has good thermodynamic properties, is noncorrosive, and safe. The desired thermodynamic properties are a boiling point somewhat below the target temperature, a high heat of vaporization, a moderate density in liquid form, and a relatively high density in gaseous form. Since boiling point and gas density are affected by pressure, refrigerants may be made more suitable for a particular application by choice of operating pressure.

Answer 6

No, the warmth from the air in the refrigerator is dispersed from the radiator at the back, this will then circulate to warm up the cold air so you will achieve nothing.

Eventually the fridge motor will burn out after you've wasted a lot of electricity.

Answer 7

Yeah, dont do this, you'll blow the Motor out and mess up your fridge. For a quick fix stand in front of the freezer for a few seconds or take a cold shower. You can also sleep naked with the windows open and if you have afan, have it in the window. I'm from Texas LOL, and back in the day, we couldnt afford AC! When we were kids we used to stick wet towels in the freezer, let them get really cold and then sleep on them. 105 degree nights = crappy sleep! Good night!

Answer 8

No, The system is designed to be a closed enviroment system, Pushing low volumes of coolant and low volume of air flow, Now you could use the refridge to cool a 15 or 20 gal container of water or alcohol and have coils running thru it and then outside the fridge to exchanger and have a larger fan blowing on it...that might make a differance......but only in a small room

Answer 9

No. Much of the energy used to cool the air in the refrigerator is lost as heat in the room.

If you left your refrigerator door open it would only make the room warmer.

Too bad, huh?

Answer 10

no, the way a refrigerator works it that it sucks the hot hair out of the closed box and releases it into the room from the back (thus creating a lot of noise). if you open a fridge to cool the room, all its doing is sucking the hot hair out and blowing it back into the room.

wow, everyone on yahoo answers is a retard, i hope you read mine before you give up searching for the right answer

Answer 11

It will work for a while, in a very small space, but it will cost a lot more in electric bills than a window unit, etc would, and after it runs without stopping for a while, the motors and compressor will burn up. You will lose your cooling, and your refrigirator will be junk

I suggest looking in the swap/sell ads in your newspaper and seeing if anyone has a window unit for sale.

Also, try calling an Air Conditioning company and seeing if they have any used units.