Thermal efficiency of natural gas balanced-flue space heaters: Measurements for commercial devices

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1067-1073

  Juanicó, Luis E ^a   González, Alejandro D ^b  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Experiments; Natural gas furnace; Residential space heating; Thermal efficiency

Indexed keywords

CHIMNEYS; FLUE GASES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL GAS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

FLUE SPACE HEATERS; GAS SPACE HEATERS; NATURAL GAS FURNACES; RESIDENTIAL SPACE HEATING; THERMAL EFFICIENCY;

SPACE HEATING;

EID: 38949181559     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2007.10.007     Document Type: Article

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