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Energy and Environmental Appraisal of Domestic Laundering Appliances

This paper is one of several outputs from a major 3-year ESPRC funded project (£520759, EP/G00028X/1) led by MEARU and undertaken in collaboration with Energy System Research Unit, University of Strathclyde, and Centre for Research into Indoor Climate and Health, Glasgow Caledonian. The overall research aim of the study – ‘Environmental Assessment of Domestic Laundering’ (EADL) – was to investigate the energy use and other potentially detrimental environmental impacts attributable to domestic laundering and develop recommendations to address and improve both aspects. This paper concentrates on the aspects of the first of the project modules listed below that relate passive indoor drying (PID), and to a lesser extent ironing, to both air quality (IAQ) and energy efficiency (EE). This major project has been widely published through a series of research outputs including: Design Guide: Healthy Low Energy Home Laundering (978-0-9571595-0-1); Sensing a historic low-CO2 future, in Chemistry, Emission Control, Radioactive Pollution and Indoor Air Quality (978-953-307-570-9; Communal Residential Laundry Washing And Drying - Can It Provide Demand-Side Electrical Load Flexibility? In: Microgen’II: Second International Conference of Microgeneration and Related Technologies; Displacing Electrical Energy for Drying Domestic Laundry by Practical Solar Upgrades - Proposed Glasgow Housing Case Studies. In: EuroSun 2010, Graz, Austria; Economic and Environmental Impact of Communal Laundry Spaces in High Density Housing in the UK. The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sutainability (978-1-86335-766-1). Domestic laundering – environmental audit in Glasgow with emphasis on passive indoor drying and air quality. In: Indoor and Built Environment (accepted for special edition 2014). It has also had significant public dissemination including widespread coverage in the press both UK and internationally (including pieces on the BBC News, BBC World TV, Daily Telegraph, Independent, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Mirror, Huffington Post, European Daily and over 100 International news publications) and dissemination through industry events such as Ecobuild, and events for the SFHA and institute for Housing