Evaluation of earth-to-air heat exchangers with a standardised method to calculate energy efficiency

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 971-983

  Pfafferott, Jens ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Earth to air heat exchanger; Efficiency criteria; Energy performance; Evaluation; Office buildings; Parametric model; Passive cooling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OFFICE BUILDINGS; VENTILATION;

PASSIVE COOLING;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 0041511798     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-7788(03)00055-0     Document Type: Article

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