APPLIANCE FOR DRYING LAUNDRY AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SUCH AN APPLIANCE

An appliance for drying laundry has an appliance housing, at least one open drying air duct situated inside the appliance housing, for sucking in ambient air during a drying process, and at least one heat pump, which is situated inside the appliance housing and is thermally coupled to the drying air...

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Hauptverfasser: Harbach, Alvaro, Heyder, Reinhard, Stolze, Andreas
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Zusammenfassung:An appliance for drying laundry has an appliance housing, at least one open drying air duct situated inside the appliance housing, for sucking in ambient air during a drying process, and at least one heat pump, which is situated inside the appliance housing and is thermally coupled to the drying air duct. To reduce the energy consumption of such an appliance, the drying air duct has at least one air intake opening, which is situated inside the appliance housing and is situated in a section of the drying air duct upstream of a condenser of the heat pump in relation to an air mass flow through the drying air duct prevailing during the drying process.