Determination of optimum pipe diameter along with energetic and exergetic evaluation of geothermal district heating systems: Modeling and application

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 742-755

  Kalinci, Yildiz ^a   Hepbasli, Arif ^b   Tavman, Ismail ^a  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

District heating system; Efficiency; Energy analysis; Exergy analysis; Geothermal energy; Optimum pipe diameter

Indexed keywords

EXERGY; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; HEATING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PIPE;

DISTRICT HEATING SYSTEM; ENERGY ANALYSIS; EXERGY ANALYSIS;

DISTRICT HEATING;

EID: 38549111281     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2007.05.009     Document Type: Article

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