Environmental evaluation of an air-conditioning system supplied by cooling energy from a bore-hole based heat pump system

Building and Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-61

  Heikkilä, Katarína ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Air conditioning system; Bore hole based heat pump; Comfort cooling system; Environmental assessment; Life cycle assessment (LCA); Office building

Indexed keywords

COOLING SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; LIFE CYCLE; OFFICE BUILDINGS;

BORE-HOLE BASED HEAT PUMP; COMFORT COOLING SYSTEM; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; PHOTOCHEMICAL OZONE CREATION POTENTIAL;

AIR CONDITIONING;

AIR CONDITIONING; COOLING SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; LIFE CYCLE; OFFICE BUILDINGS;

AIR CONDITIONING; BUILDING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548384820     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2006.11.027     Document Type: Article

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