Proposal for a new hybrid control strategy of a solar desiccant evaporative cooling air handling unit

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 896-905

  Vitte, Thibaut ^a,b   Brau, Jean ^a   Chatagnon, Nadège ^b   Woloszyn, Monika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b EDF R AND D   (France)

Author keywords

Air conditioning; Control strategy; Solar thermal energy; Solid desiccant

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; COMPRESSORS; COOLING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

CONTROL STRATEGY; OPEN LOOP COOLING CYCLE; SOLAR THERMAL ENERGY; SOLID DESICCANT;

EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS;

EID: 38749122445     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2007.07.004     Document Type: Article

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