A study on the characteristics of nighttime bedroom cooling load in tropics and subtropics

Building and Environment

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1101-1114

  Lin, Zhongping ^a   Deng, Shiming ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cooling load; Nighttime air conditioning; Room air conditioner sizing; Sleeping

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUILDING COMPONENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; TROPICAL BUILDINGS;

COOLING LOADS; NIGHTIME BEDROOM COOLING; NIGHTIME OPERATING MODES (NOM); ROOM AIR CONDITIONERS (RAC);

COOLING;

AIR CONDITIONING;

EID: 17644399474     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2004.01.035     Document Type: Article

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