Performance evaluation and energy conservation potential of earth-air-tunnel system coupled with non-air-conditioned building

Building and Environment

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 807-813

  Kumar, Rakesh ^a   Ramesh, S ^b   Kaushik, S C ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b Municipal Corporation of Delhi   (India)

Author keywords

ACH (air change rate); Auxiliary energy load; Cooling heating capacity; Earth air heat exchanger; Soil temperature; Space cooling

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BUILDING CODES; BUILDINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; ELECTRIC LOADS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

EARTH-AIR-TUNNEL (EAT) SYSTEMS;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

COOLING SYSTEM; HEAT EXCHANGER; HEATING SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TUNNEL;

EID: 0038683372     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-1323(03)00024-6     Document Type: Article

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