A techno-economic comparison of ground-coupled and air-coupled heat pump system for space cooling

Building and Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1955-1965

  Esen, Hikmet ^a   Inalli, Mustafa ^a   Esen, Mehmet ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Air coupled; Cooling; Ground coupled; Heat pump; Techno economic analysis; Turkey

Indexed keywords

COOLING; HEAT EXCHANGERS;

AIR-COUPLED HEAT PUMP SYSTEM; GROUND-COUPLED HEAT PUMP SYSTEM; TECHNO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS;

HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS;

COOLING; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS;

AIR CONDITIONING; COOLING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEATING;

ELAZIG [TURKEY]; EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 33845591345     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2006.04.007     Document Type: Article

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