The thermostat settings were throughout adjusted to reach the required average temperature Tm in the fresh-food com- partment of about 5 °C. In this case, the cycle duration of both appliances is nearly the same, but the relative runtime de- creases from approx. 24% to 20% with the PCM (cf. Table 3). Also the minimum evaporator temperature was increased with the integration of PCM by ~6 °C from about −16 °C to −10 °C and on average during the runtime of the compressor by ~6 °C from about −9.3 °C to −3.2 °C. The maximum condenser tempera- ture TC was reduced by ~8 °C from about 48 °C to 40 °C and on average during the runtime of the compressor by ~6 °C from 43.4 °C to 37.3 °C.Altogether, this leads to a reduction of power consumption by about 17%.