Appliance for treating articles

摘要

Articles treatment appliance (1), in particular for treating laundry or tableware, having a heat pump system (5), the heat pump system having a refrigerant loop, the appliance comprising: an articles treatment chamber (2) for treating articles using a medium; a first heat exchanger (6) for heating a refrigerant; a second heat exchanger (7) for cooling the refrigerant and heating the medium; a refrigerant expansion device (14) arranged in the refrigerant loop between the second heat exchanger (7) and the first heat exchanger (6); a compressor (8) arranged in the refrigerant loop between the first heat exchanger (6) and the second heat exchanger (7). The refrigerant is a blend of alkanes type molecules with general formula C n H 2n+2 with 1 ‰¤ n ‰¤ 8.