In one aspect, a portable-smart refrigerator includes a lid assembly comprising a lid coupled with a lid bottom cover for fastening the lid assembly to an internal upper portion of a Polypropylene chamber assembly. The portable-smart refrigerator includes a grill assembly comprising a top base, a pump bracket, a middle base, a bottom base. The top based hold the pump bracket. the top base is coupled with the middle base. The middle base is coupled with the bottom base. The portable-smart refrigerator includes a cooling-coil assembly comprising a feeding tube, a top elbow, a bottom tube, a cooling coil. The top elbow is installed between two lengths of tubing/pipe to enable a change of direction and couples the feeding tube with the cooling coil. The cooling coil is coupled with the bottom tube. The portable-smart refrigerator includes the phase change material (PCM) chamber assembly that holds the cooling coil. The polypropylene chamber assembly is placed within an outer cylinder. A bottom portion of the Polypropylene chamber assembly is coupled with the grill assembly. A sleeve assembly forming a portion of the outer cylinder.

A measuring system for automatically determining and/or monitoring the quality of a liquid or viscous foodstuff, including a housing with an interior space for a product container for the foodstuff, the product container has a product space for the foodstuff and a lid provided with a probe with a thermometer, a heating and cooling device for the interior space, a sensor device for determining a non-temperature quality-related parameter value of the foodstuff, and a control unit designed to control the measuring system, measure, store, process and/or export the measured parameter values, and to control the heating and/or the cooling system according to a desired time-temperature program. The cooling system includes a cold buffer, a cooler for the cold buffer, and a separate refrigerant circuit. The cold buffer includes a buffer holder with a phase-transition material, wherein the refrigerant circuit includes a cooling circuit with a pump.

A refrigerator includes a freezer compartment, a fresh food compartment, and an ice compartment. The refrigerator also includes at least one evaporator configured to cool at least one of the fresh food compartment and the freezer compartment. The refrigerator further includes a condenser configured to supply a refrigerant to the at least one evaporator and a compressor configured to receive the refrigerant from the at least one evaporator and supply the refrigerant to the condenser. In addition, the refrigerator includes a thermoelectric heat pump system having (i) a first side secondary loop configured to dissipate heat through a heat exchange loop and (ii) a second side secondary loop configured to cool at least one of the fresh food compartment and the ice compartment.