Following the evidence – How quality of appliance components can hint at non-compliance with efficiency requirements
- Improving the energy efficiency of products was identified as the most important short-term opportunity to decrease energy consumption and therefore CO2-emission worldwide. More efficient products are created due to technical innovation. Restricting market access to efficient products only and making the most efficient products stand out by energy labelling are legislative approaches to encourage this development. Market surveillance authorities’ checks are fundamental to protect the consumer from wrongly declared goods on the market and ensure fair competition between manufacturers. However, the activities of market surveillance authorities are limited by their financial resources. Testing all product efficiency parameters in an accredited laboratory is very time consuming and cost intensive. In this article, a theoretical concept is presented which can be used to develop screening tests enabling market surveillance authorities to perform product tests with less financial resources.Improving the energy efficiency of products was identified as the most important short-term opportunity to decrease energy consumption and therefore CO2-emission worldwide. More efficient products are created due to technical innovation. Restricting market access to efficient products only and making the most efficient products stand out by energy labelling are legislative approaches to encourage this development. Market surveillance authorities’ checks are fundamental to protect the consumer from wrongly declared goods on the market and ensure fair competition between manufacturers. However, the activities of market surveillance authorities are limited by their financial resources. Testing all product efficiency parameters in an accredited laboratory is very time consuming and cost intensive. In this article, a theoretical concept is presented which can be used to develop screening tests enabling market surveillance authorities to perform product tests with less financial resources. The concept identifies components which lead to non-compliance or make a product less energy efficient with minimum effort. The principle is based on a combination of random product tests, disassembling specific products and comparing components. This represents a new approach in product testing procedures beyond the current market surveillance activities. The concept is being tested within a research project funded by the German government.…
Autor*innen: | Moritz-Caspar Schlegel, Anne Simo, Carsten Palkowski, Arno Kniechewski, Floris Akkerman |
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Dokumenttyp: | Beitrag zu einem Tagungsband |
Veröffentlichungsform: | Graue Literatur |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch): | Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting (EEDAL'17) |
Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2018 |
Herausgeber (Institution): | European Commission |
Verlag: | Publications Office of the European Union |
Verlagsort: | Luxembourg |
Jahrgang/Band: | 3 |
Erste Seite: | 1113 |
Letzte Seite: | 1116 |
DDC-Klassifikation: | Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / Ingenieurwissenschaften / Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten |
Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / Ingenieurwissenschaften / Angewandte Physik | |
Freie Schlagwörter: | Ecodesign; Market surveillance; Methodology |
Themenfelder/Aktivitätsfelder der BAM: | Energie |
Umwelt | |
Umwelt / Circular Economy | |
Veranstaltung: | EEDAL'17 |
Veranstaltungsort: | Irvine, CA, USA |
Beginndatum der Veranstaltung: | 13.09.2017 |
Enddatum der Veranstaltung: | 15.09.2017 |
DOI: | 10.2760/68449 |
URL: | http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC109209 |
ISSN: | 1018-5593 |
ISBN: | 978-92-79-77173-6 |
Verfügbarkeit des Dokuments: | Datei im Netzwerk der BAM verfügbar ("Closed Access") |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 29.01.2018 |
Referierte Publikation: | Nein |