Development of a Global Standard for the Testing of Clothes Washers: Stage 1 - Load and Detergent

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Summary

This report was prepared in September 2006 by Energy Efficient Strategies under contract to The Equipment Energy Efficiency committee (E3). Contributions to the report were also made by Test Research.

On the 5th August 2005, EL 15-4 Working Group No. 9 was formed with a task to investigate options for moving towards a more international approach to the testing of clothes washers intended for sale in the Australian and New Zealand markets.

That working group subsequently made the following recommendations to the EL 15-4 Standards committee:

That EL 15-4 actively work towards the adoption of a global standard.
The global standard to be adopted should be IEC 60456 Edition 6 which is expected to be available sometime after 2011.

The working group recommended that the adoption of a global standard should be a staged approach and that the first stage should cover two aspects:

Investigate the adoption of the current IEC load for use in the current Australian/New Zealand Standard. The recommendation was that initially the IEC load could be provided as an alternative to using the AS/NZS load and eventually it would replace the AS/NZS load.
As a preparatory step in moving toward the use of a "global detergent" investigations be undertaken into the possible adoption of a single detergent for use in the AS/NZS standard and that that detergent should be the detergent currently used for drum type machines ie IEC Type B detergent.

This report details the outcomes from those investigations. In particular this report details the measured impacts on the full range of performance measures including wash, rinse, severity of wash, water extraction and energy and water consumption.

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